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
lithuanian_zoo is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
missouri_student_federal_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
falls_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
interop is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
mahalapye is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
keira_knightly has spouse victoria	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
revolution_health_group is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bill_belichick is a sports coach also known as bill_parcells	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
bed is often found in private_cottage	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
diet can cause blood_sugar	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0