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
may_52 is a date	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
casual_dining_furniture is a kind of furniture	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
national_movement_dla_simeon_ii is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lucky_balaraman is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
anderson_valley_post is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the sports leage nfl uses the venue metrodome	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
melbourne is the capital city of the state or province victoria	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
cowboys_stadium is a stadium or event venue located in the city arlington	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
national is a company that has an office in the country spain	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
obama is a person who was written about in associated_press	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6