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
mikael_rieck is an African person	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
public_information_coordinator is a job position	1111	06-jul-2018	95.0
hays_wexler is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	97.4
irving_towne_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
terrorism_and is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	91.8
recluse is an arthropod as well as recluse_spider also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
courier_journal is a newspaper in the city louisville	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
reagan_washington_national is an attraction that will be fall in city washington_d_c_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ray is a musician who plays the vocals	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
raleigh_durham_international_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0