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
contact_work_media is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	92.8
spring_semester_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
gros_islet is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
angela_rossi is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
lagoon_view_rooms is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
lake_panasoffkee is a lake in the state or province florida	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mitsubishi makes the automobile mitsubishi_eclipse	1114	25-aug-2018	99.5
johnson001 graduated from state_university	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
ananias and paul001 are siblings	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
ambush_bug is related to white	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0