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
colossians_2_13_14 is an ethnic group	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
march_2010_elections is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
rutgers_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
colosse is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.9
juan_manuel_de_rosas is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	98.0
toni_morrison wrote the book song_of_solomon	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
microsoft_office_user_specialist is a synonym for microsoft_corporation001	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
victoria is the capital city of the state or province bc	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
sony is a company in the economic sector of large_electronics	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
rajendra_pachauri is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0