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
icvk is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
jelly_beans_pink_grapefruit is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
dec__27_elections is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
saturn is a planet	1115	03-sep-2018	92.9
center_preservation is a sports team position	1112	24-jul-2018	98.5
giuliani represents the region new	1115	03-sep-2018	95.7
ford is a company that produces freestyle	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
usps is a company also known as united_states_postal_service	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
administration is headquartered in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
louis_xv has citizenship in the country france_france	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0