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
brisbane_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
beady_eye_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
dorianne_laux is a person	1111	06-jul-2018	94.3
seasickness is a physical characteristic	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
poker_nicknames is a cardgame	1111	06-jul-2018	91.8
maritime_administration is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
national is a bank that bought dena_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
title is an event at the location united_states	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
arachnids is called scorpions	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
states is a state or province located in the geopolitical location san_francisco	1112	24-jul-2018	99.8