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
giant_king_crab is a crustacean	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
pressure_cooker_set is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
port_of_bandar_neka is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dominican_society is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marcel_van_eeden is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
san_diego is the home city of the sports team point_loma_nazarene_university	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
xi_an_in_shaanxi_province is a city located in the country china	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nene_hilario plays in the league nba	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought cibc_world_markets	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
brewers is a sports team also known as former_green_bay_packers	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8