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
bradford_county_telegraph is a political blog	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
vibrio_crassostreae is a bacterium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n2005_festival_film_movie_sundance is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cheap_fuel is a refinery product	1113	15-aug-2018	99.3
texas_fish__game_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
chandpur is a city that lies on the river meghna	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
charles held the position of king	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
mazda makes the automobile tribute	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
gm is a company also known as general_motors	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
ontario is a state or province located in the geopolitical location north_america	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9