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
n10_19_22 is a term used by physicists	1111	06-jul-2018	97.5
rissoidea is a mollusk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jelly_beans_sugar_free_twists is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
fonta_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_scooby_doo__and_the_legend_of_the_vampire is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the home stadium of martin_havlat is wrigley_field	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
germany is a country located in the geopolitical location foreign_countries	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2
creatures feeds on dragonflies	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
diamondbacks is an organization also known as marlins	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
valerie graduated from college	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0