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
bellefonte_pennsylvania is an island	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
leominster_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
gold_huggie_earrings is a visualizable attribute	1111	06-jul-2018	90.3
magazine_photographer is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
egocentric_thinking_and_empathetic_thinking is a cognitive action	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
management is a type of sciences	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
john_bonham is a musician who is part of zeppelin	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6
world_trade_center is a park in the city brooklyn	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the home stadium of ron_santo is wrigley_field	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dnrec is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0