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
british_leyland_motor_corporation is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
rivermark_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
twitch_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
vein_of_septum_pellucidum is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
investment_students is an economic sector	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
birmingham is a city located in the country great_britain	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
bobby_jones is related to http___www_yardbarker_com_blog_bobbysworld_home	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
eve is the parent of life	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
mcgrady is an athlete who injured his/her back	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
tokyo is the capital city of the country japan	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8