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
secondary_school_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wetland_of_international_importance is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	90.0
imperial_chemical_industries_plc is a biotech company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
westfield_shoppingtown_eastridge is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
deauville_film_festival_of_american_film is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
union_leader is a newspaper in the city manchester	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
bridget has spouse brian	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
usa is related to yankees	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
spiders is called spider	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
corvette is a company also known as general_motors	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8