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
queso_mezcla_de_sasam_n_cheese is a cheese	1111	06-jul-2018	93.0
gary_locke is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
margherita_bean is a legume	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
___td___td________td___td___dorsal_lingual_vein is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
final_fantasy_legend is a video game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
abdul_jalil_jan belongs to the religion islam	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brazil is a country located in the geopolitical location south_america	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
orb_weaver is called spider	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the_philadelphia_inquirer is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
larger_animals is an animal that is a kind of cats	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0