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
another_anime___con is a convention	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
mississippi_college_clinton is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
connie_campbell ia a celebrity	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
luis_roman is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
n1995_world_series is an award, championship, or tournament trophy	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dravidian is the language of the country india	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
arts is an academic program at the university baptist_university	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
indiscriminate_rockets is a type of weapon produced in israel	1114	25-aug-2018	99.8
richard_perle belongs to the religion jewish	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kevin_rudd held the position of prime_minister	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0