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
carroll_county_regional_airport is a transportation system	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
give_it_up is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_army_of_darkness is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
antique_brass_bathroom_faucet is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
psp_hockey_games is a consumer electronic device	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
virgil was born in rome	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
blenheim is a city that lies on the river wairau	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dodge is a specific automobile maker dealer in arizona	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
air_national_guard is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
thomas_jones plays in the league nfl	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0