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
charitable_fund is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
abdelrahman_munif is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.1
maree_cheatham is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
international_brotherhood_of_electrical_workers_local is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	95.4
steven_wayne is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
federal_aviation_administration is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
fred_kendall is the parent of jason_kendall	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
quality_inn_hollywood is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
meal can cause blood_sugar	1113	15-aug-2018	98.6
edmonton is a city located in the country canada	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8