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
quality_food_centers_inc is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
port_of_milos is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
hobart_ind_school_employees_federal_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
hold_poker_rule_texas is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
maxi_chinese_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
god_the_father and mary are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
roethlisberger is an athlete coached by josh_tomlin	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
burien is a city located in the state or province washington	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
charlie_savage is a journalist that writes for the publication times	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
entertainment is taller than family	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0