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
i_m_gonna_lock_my_heart is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
heirline_covered_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	96.6
n06_15_2009 is a dataset used within the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
eastern_arabic is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
reviews_software is a tool	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
latin is a language used in the university florida_international_university	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
kansas_state is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
n3_ looks like screen	1112	24-jul-2018	99.6
steven_derounian is a person who has residence in the country us	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
britain is a country also known as china	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0