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
christian_coalition is an organization	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
excellence_award_this_award is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
mary_s_a_grand_old_name is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
aunt_jean_s_yule_cake is a baked good	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
barley_oatmeal is a grain	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
the loosing score of super_bowl_xxxvii was nonneginteger:n21	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sports team yankees was the winner of n2009_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
p_j__axelsson is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
red_wings is a sports team also known as pittsburgh_penguins	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
jared_cotter is a person who has age nonneginteger:n25	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0