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
consciosness is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	96.7
roth_s_fresh_markets is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
political_polls is a hobby	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
gulf_beaches can be a part of a landscape	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
maria_lamb is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
japanese_language is spoken in the city tokyo	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
assurant is a company in the economic sector of insurance	1114	25-aug-2018	93.1
herb_kelleher is a top member of southwest	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
salt_lake_international is an attraction that will be fall in city salt_lake	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
Eating breast decreases the risk of malignancies	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0