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
n1967____1982 is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
punk_music_festival_germany is a music festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
santa_rita_farms is a farm	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
becky_wahlstrom is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	96.2
assessment_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
red_sox is an organization created at the date n1901	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
westjet is a company headquartered in the city calgary	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
denard_span is an athlete also known as derrick_brooks	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
paul_millsap is an athlete who led new_orleans_jazz	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
palace is a stadium or event venue located in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0