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
em_games is a product	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
giant_cave_claw_scorpion is an arachnid	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
then_you_can_tell_me_goodbye is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
maserati_3200_gt is a model of automobile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
leoncillo is a visual artist	1111	06-jul-2018	96.4
football is a sport taught in the country israel	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
istanbul_port is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
albert_pujols plays for the team cardinals_27_23	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
wibc is a radio station in the city indianapolis	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
football_players is a generalization of peyton_manning	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0