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
ixtapa_zihuatanejo is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
kim_harrison is a professor	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
keith_mcerlean is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
american_classic_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
bennys_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hockey is a sport played in the venue st__pete_times_forum	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
college hired carroll	1113	15-aug-2018	98.4
coast_starlight is a transportation system located in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
insects feeds on spider_mites	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
think is a specific automobile maker dealer in _uk	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9