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
cassinos_on_line_cassinos_on_line_cassinos_on_line is a cardgame	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
n12915 is a ZIP code	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
breakfast_home is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
unguja_island is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.3
bulova_mantel_clock is an item found on a wall	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
oregon is a state that is bordered by the state washington	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
j_p__ricciardi is a person also known as aaron_rodgers	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
ty_cobb plays the athletic team position player	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
creative_coalition is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the companies hong_kong_post and china001 compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8