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
vegas_casinos is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
esc_de_colonia_maria_antonia is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	93.3
bathrooms___kitchens is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
car_chairs is a kind of furniture	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
battle_of_ayshal is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country the_philippines	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
orly_taitz belongs to the ethnic group soviet	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the final score of the sports game finals was gamescore:n0_2	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
wozniak is a subpart of apple_inc	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
sponges is a type of animals	1114	25-aug-2018	99.8