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
comfort_inn_vernon is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
_____2_____1____br___bobangi is an ethnic group	1111	06-jul-2018	95.7
world_india is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ledson_vineyards_and_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
foreign_exchange_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mongolia is a country also known as china	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
spiders is called recluse_spider	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the home stadium of steve_montador is wrigley_field	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
shaker was born in cleveland	1116	12-sep-2018	93.4
soccer is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0