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
party_dla_progress_of_gwinea_r_wnikowa_or_ppge is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fly_globespan is a company	1111	06-jul-2018	92.0
merpcon is a convention	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
chalk_hill_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
silver_anodised_aluminium is a building material	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
ebay_com is a company also known as ebay	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
rodents is an animal that eats seeds	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
barnet is a park in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
fda is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
facebook has official website twitter__	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0