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
jane_harrison is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
goleta_city is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
n4_burner_electric_stove is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
jackie_goodwin is american	1111	06-jul-2018	91.5
state_committee_for_scientific_research is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wilkes_barre_scranton_international_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
the companies manchester_guardian and new_york compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
the sports team eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants was the winner of super_bowl_xlvi	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nintendo_ is a company that produces wii	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
fender has acquired jackson	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8