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
u_s__students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
north_wilkesboro_north_carolina is an island	1111	06-jul-2018	96.5
permanent_revolution is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
culture_this_article is a legislative bill	1111	06-jul-2018	91.9
debi_davis is a professor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
nissan makes the automobile pathfinder	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
channel_tunnel is a transportation system located in the city brussels	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
shanghai is a city that lies on the river huangpu	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
xml_feed_tweet_seattle_mariners is a sports team that played in games	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
jared_cotter died in the city west_orange	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0