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
foreign_exchange_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n00601 is a ZIP code	1112	24-jul-2018	99.8
united_mineworkers is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
dairy_cream is an agricultural product	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
classic_bernaise_sauce is a condiment	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
winnipeg is the capital city of the state or province manitoba	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
william_douglas graduated from college	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
chelsea is a person who has age 28	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
milano is the capital city of the country italy	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
johnson001 is a person who has attended the school college	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0