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
formaggella_del___bec_cheese is a cheese	1111	06-jul-2018	93.5
frank_sinatra_with_quincy_jones_and_orchestra is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
rivisitazioni is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
chihuahuan_hooknose_snake is a reptile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n1_corinthians_9_16 is an ethnic group	1111	06-jul-2018	97.2
stuart_hamm is a musician who plays the bass	1114	25-aug-2018	99.7
rbs terminated the employment of fred_goodwin	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
pork_jowl is related to pig	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
felipe_alou is the father of moises_alou	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
kabc is a radio station in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0