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
n6_00___7_00_pm is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_detroit_zoo is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
charopidae is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
vanity_led_kitchen_faucet is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
don_larson is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
clarkesville is a lake in the state or province georgia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sports team yankees was the winner of n1958_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
venus_williams is an athlete who beat lindsay_davenport	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
democratic is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location new_york	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
san_diego_padres is a sports team that won the division	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8