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
el_arenal is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
burch_pond is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lori_moran is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
boom_town_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fulton_county_judge is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	97.4
steven_spielberg directed the movie empire_of_the_sun	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
spanish_language is a language taught in language schools in the city san_miguel	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
hilgard_house_westwood_village is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
cairo_international_airport is an airport in the city cairo	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
the sport baseball was played at n1980_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0