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
a_place_in_the_sun is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
nigu_river is a river	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
acro_dento_osteo_dysplasia is a disease	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n9_59_53 is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
training_banking is an economic sector	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
widow_spiders is an arthropod as well as spiders also is	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
kfi is a radio station in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
roissy_charles_de_gaulle is an attraction that will be fall in city paris	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
suspects participated in the event offenses	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
mcpherson001 was born in washington___d___c__	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0