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
ram_jam is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	92.5
decorated_guestrooms is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
n10_8_seconds is a parlour game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
worcester_cathedral_priory is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
senior_management_consultant is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
grammy_museum is a museum in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
steve_howey has spouse sarah	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
bothell is a city also known as seattle	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
holiday_inn_express_century_city is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dsc_communications terminated the employment of john_hendricks	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0