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
n5_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
i_m_leaving_it_all_up_to_you is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
video_art is a visual art movement	1112	24-jul-2018	90.6
chip_jenkins is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
state_university_of_new_york_buffalo is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
miami_heat participated in the event championship	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
edmonton is a city located in the geopolitical location province	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
sweden_stockholm is the capital city of the country sweden	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
recluse_spiders is called spiders	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joel_achenbach is a journalist that writes for the publication washington	1113	15-aug-2018	99.8