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
gary_stefan is american	1111	06-jul-2018	91.6
burdett_college_worcester_campus is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
radio_equipment is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
willful_homicide ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
podracing is a sport	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
steve001 works for newton	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
crickets is an arthropod as well as pests also is	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
phil_knight created the organziation nike	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
vince_lombardi coaches in the league nfl	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hussein_kamel belongs to the ethnic group iraqi	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0