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
furniture_moulds is a fungus	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
party_of_democratic_kampuchea is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
n8_1_victory is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
movie_the_high_and_the_mighty is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
erica_alexander is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
tv looks like queen_size_bed	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
henry001 held the position of king	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the_philadelphia_inquirer is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
isaac is the father of esau	1116	12-sep-2018	97.3
nissan terminated the employment of carlos_ghosn	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0