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
trofeo_citt__di_brescia___memorial_rino_fiori is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
nodes_pelvic_area is a part of the body	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_rose_red is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
citizens_certain_rights is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	95.6
pejepscot_maine is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
williams graduated from college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
kim_il_sung is a person who died on the date n1994	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought standard_chartered	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
circut_city is headquartered in the city richmond	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank in malta	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0