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
man_fashion_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
chantax_abnormal_thinking is a cognitive action	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
online_lifetime_insurance is an economic sector	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
john_benson_brooks is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	93.0
eastern_arabic is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
imran_khan got married in n1995	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
miller is a politician who holds the office of president	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
moises_alou is the parent of felipe_alou	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
spiders is called scorpions	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
moyer is a person who has age nonneginteger:n46	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0