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
john_pendleton is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_diane_rehm_show is a TV show	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
elm_lake is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anthony_pace is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
em_poquer_online is a board game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
john_thain works for nyse	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
perth is the capital city of the state or province western_australia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
museum_of_neon_art is a museum in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
china is a country also known as argentina	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
tokyo is the capital city of the country japan	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8