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
home_writing_jobs is a building	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
tanjung_benoa_bali is a geopolitical entity that is a location	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
abdul_aziz_al_hakim is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
gardening_sites is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	94.4
hampshire_illinois is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
two is the number of people that died in the event n2_dead__3_injured_in_maine_snowmobile_crashes	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dickinson was born in the city chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the country sri_lanka uses the currency rupees	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought andhra_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
yahweh is the father of yahshua	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0