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
tazers is a weapon	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
santa_margherita_pinot_grigio is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
n31_28_loss is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
dharampur is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
lamp_table is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
eggs is an agricultural product coming from nestlings	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
motorola is a company also known as samsung	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
hong_kong_special_administrative_region is a country also known as china	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
al_pacino starred in the movie dog_day_afternoon	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
community_development is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2