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
melvin_miles is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.0
burrino_farcito_con_soppressata_cheese is a cheese	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
ionotropic_glutamate_receptor is a protein	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
aaa_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
kokanee_springs_golf_resort is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
south_east_asia is a synonym for china	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
steven_derounian was born in the country bulgaria	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
rugby is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
cable looks like link	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
president_obama has wife michelle_obama	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9