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
children_s_museum_in_easton is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
federal_cave is a cave	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
krtv is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
vanity_led_kitchen_faucet is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
aba_annual_meeting is a music festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
louisiana is a state that is bordered by the state texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
capitol is headquartered in the city seattle	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
child and blessed_virgin are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
conversation_and_discussion_with_an_entrepreneur_and_energy_visionary occurrs at the date april_24__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
hank_williams is a person who died on the date n1953	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0