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
michigan_city_hotels is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
haydenfilms_online_film_festiva is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
throne_room_doors is something found in or on buildings	1111	06-jul-2018	98.6
rivisitazioni is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
fried_pork_rice_noodles_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
steve001 is an athlete who injured his/her knee	1112	24-jul-2018	99.6
john_t__chambers is the CEO of cisco	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
commission_junction_and_linkshare is an organization known by the acronym commision_junction	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
seattle_seahawks_21_10 is an organization also known as former_green_bay_packers	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
mike_aviles is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0