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
contendenti is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
hellgate_london is a video game	1111	06-jul-2018	92.7
pumpkin_cheesecakes is a food	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
psp_usded_games is a consumer electronic device	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
newborn_phase is a non-disease physiological condition	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
the sports team eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants was the winner of n2008_super_bowl	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
animals is an animal that preys on spiders	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
delmonico is a restaurant in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
greenock is a city located in the country scotland	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
george_carlin is a person who died at the age of 71	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0