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
lumbar_spine_fusion is a medical procedure	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_real_life_of_sebastian_knight is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
brent_briscoe is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
kosciusko_gmc is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	95.2
hustle_award is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fresh_fruits is an agricultural product that contains chemicals	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
rashid_auditorium_4401 is a room in the building gates_and_hillman_centers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
viacom terminated the employment of sumner_redstone	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
triangle has shape diagram	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
edgar_froese is a musician who plays the guitar	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8