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
fetchdog_com is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
automobile_picture is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	96.7
christmas_trees is a plant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cornish_national_party is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
nestles_crunch_with_caramel is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	98.6
new_school is a university in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
logan was born in chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
cinnamon can cause blood_sugar	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
ktvu is a company that has an office in the city san_francisco	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
visual_communications is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0