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
real_foods_market is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
paxon_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bahamas_islands can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
pork_chop_mustard_sauce is a condiment	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
golden_minute_salamander is an amphibian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marion was born in charleston	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
soccer is a sport taught in the country south_africa	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
the companies khaleej_times and gulf_air compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
jeep is a specific automobile maker dealer in birmingham	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
grundy is a city located in the state or province tennessee	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0