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
boneless_chop_pork_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
sly_boogy is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	92.4
n10_19_22 is a term used by physicists	1111	06-jul-2018	97.5
phone_information is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	91.8
the_hour_of_the_oxrun_dead is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
massey_energy is headquartered in the state or province virginia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
orlando_hernandez plays the sport baseball	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
lubbock is the capital city of the state or province texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dc is a city also known as texas	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
ram is a specific automobile maker dealer in canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0