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
joanna_bean is a legume	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
colorado_retail_council is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
upscale_magazine is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
committee_meeting is a music festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
caccamo is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
shaquille_oneal is an athlete also known as shaq_o_neal	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
seoul is the capital city of the country south_korea	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lamech and noah are family members	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
nissan makes the automobile pathfinder	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
boeing is a company headquartered in the city chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0