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
jacqueline_thompson is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
linda_richard is a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
bent_con is a convention	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
jeremy_davidson is an African person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
senior_social_worker is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
florida is a state that is bordered by the state wisconsin	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
bumrungrad is a hospital in the city bangkok	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank in nepal	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
paul_watson is a person who has residence in the state or province new_brunswick	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
shedd_aquarium is an aquarium in the city chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0