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
i_hadn_t_anyone_till_you is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jelly_beans_tropical_mix_bags is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
harvest_time_church_of_god is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
christie_todd_whitman is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
orange_headed_thrush is a bird	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1943_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bauchi is a sate or province located in the country nigeria	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
washington_irving001 was born in nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kyra_sedgwick has husband kevin_bacon	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
best_western_suites_hotel_lax is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0