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
joel_zumaya is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joseph_h__jefferson is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
southbay_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
island_chicken is a type of meat	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
michael_barnes is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
troy has been charged with murder	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
kttv_tv is a company that has an office in the city los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
richard_nolte belongs to the ethnic group american	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lucas_oil_stadium is a stadium or event venue located in the city indianapolis	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
pakbeng is a city that lies on the river mekong	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0