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
little_seeds is a fruit	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mindanews is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
mayflower_street is a street	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sibley_missouri is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	95.1
n83_ is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
john is a musician who is part of dave_matthews	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
julia has spouse paul001	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
children is an animal that can develop form	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
barack_obama is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location u_s	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
tournament is a sports game that took place on the date n2002	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0