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
mount_sendoro is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
gloria_palace_hotel is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	94.2
lituotubidae is a mollusk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
northeastern_university is a school	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
libyan_resistance is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	92.3
ryan is an athlete who injured his/her arm	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sindh is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
ron_perlman starred in the movie hellboy	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
terry_moran works for abc_news	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
chevrolet makes the automobile chevrolet_impala	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0