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
trust_account_record is a political blog	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
n50_foot_waves is a weather phenomenon	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
n100_7 is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
the_beat_magazine is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wish_creek is a river	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
montreal_expos is an organization created at the date n1969	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
grange_hotel is a hotel in the city toronto	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
jay_smith died in the state or province texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
robin_williams is related to robin_williams	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
sounder is a transportation system located in the city seattle	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0