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
april_30 is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
president_one is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	95.9
kvct_tv is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
snickers_almond is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	96.7
north_american_man_boy_love_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
delmonico is a restaurant in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
red_sox is an organization created at the date n1901	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
los_angeles_ca is a city that lies on the river grand	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
david_selden got married in n1956	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jaguar is a specific automobile maker dealer in usa	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0