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
rito_salomone is a chef	1111	06-jul-2018	94.1
melanie_chisholm is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
comment_a_friend is software used by machine-learning scientists	1112	24-jul-2018	99.5
creative_writing_committee is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
n2012_national_league_wild_card_playoff is a sports game	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
national is a bank in the_philippines	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
safina is an athlete who wins french_open	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
unit is a subpart of hot_water	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
lake_missaukee is a lake in the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
red_wings is a sports team that won the stanley_cups	1113	15-aug-2018	99.2