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
thomas_hobbes is a scientist	1111	06-jul-2018	96.2
mount_sendoro is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
michael_moran is a journalist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
icgf is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
cam_ranh_airport is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
red_wings is a sports team that won the stanley_cup	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
scion is a company that has an office in the country usa	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1947_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
end is an event at the location central_london	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
forum001 is an attraction that will be fall in city orange	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0