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
n05_18_2011 is a date	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
chatham_eben_co_op_fcu is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cinematexas_inernational_short_film_festival is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
family_bathrooms is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
computational_modelling is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
toyota is a specific automobile maker dealer in usa	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
henry001 held the position of head	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
usa is a country also known as china	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
james has brother thomas	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
nevada is a sate or province located in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0