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
ch_teauroux_classic_de_l_indre_troph_e_feniou is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
santa_monica_blvd is a highway	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ribeye_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
nelson_tan is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
bentley_vehicles is a kind of vehicle	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
khiz is headquartered in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
chicken is an animal that eats adobo	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
jhonny_nunez plays the sport baseball	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
archery is a sport taught in the country canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nursing is a profession that is a kind of issues	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8