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
sokol_blosser_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marquetta_bean is a legume	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
owego_creek is a river	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jaguar_xk8_engines is a kind of automobile engine	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
local_sunday_paper is an office supply	1112	24-jul-2018	91.2
satyam_computer_services_ltd terminated the employment of ramalinga_raju	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
creatures feeds on dragonflies	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
wsm is a radio station in the city nashville	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
peachtree_street is a street in the city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
richard_m_daley works for chicago	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0