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
helixarionidae is a mollusk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
john_pendleton is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n33_21_loss is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
casual_nike_shoes is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
queso_de_los_carriles_cheese is a cheese	1111	06-jul-2018	93.6
campus is a synonym for studies	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
deere___co is a company also known as de	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
british_council is a museum in the city delhi	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
head a muscle located in bodypart paws	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
gatwick_express is a transportation system located in the city victoria	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0