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
partner_communications_co__ltd is a biotech company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cisco_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
serious_positive_impact is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
bargello_museum is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
national_academy_of_sciences_national_research_council is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
triangle has shape peak	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
steelers is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nick_berg died in the location iraq	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought yes_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
predatory_mites is an arthropod that looks like insects	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0