Read the Web
Research Project at Carnegie Mellon University

NELL: Never-Ending Language Learning

Browse the Knowledge Base!

Can computers learn to read? We think so. "Read the Web" is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:

• First, it attempts to "read," or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)).
• Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.

So far, NELL has accumulated over 50 million candidate beliefs by reading the web, and it is considering these at different levels of confidence. NELL has high confidence in 2,810,379 of these beliefs — these are displayed on this website. It is not perfect, but NELL is learning. You can track NELL's progress below or @cmunell on Twitter, browse and download its knowledge base, read more about our technical approach, or join the discussion group.

Recently-Learned Facts

instance	iteration	date learned	confidence
do_you_hear_what_i_hear is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
comments_students is software used by machine-learning scientists	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
jeffery_s__miller is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.6
rabbit_ridge_vineyards is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_oregon_zoo is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
law is an academic program at the university george_washington_university__s_elliott_school	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
john_bonham is a musician who is part of zeppelin	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6
american_football is a sport taught in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ksci is a TV station in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
rio_casino is a stadium or event venue located in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0