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
kookmin is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	94.3
streator_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anthony_johnson is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
anthony_chisholm is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
nyack_college is a school	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
peleg is the parent of reu_two_hundred	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
north participated in the event series	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
public_relations is a type of science	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
baltimore_colts_in_super_bowl_iii is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
waltham_fields_community_farm is a farm in the country the_united_kingdom	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0