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
jamey_carroll is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wcju is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
senior_human_resources_consultant is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
panini_sandwich_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
little_ziegenfuss is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
argentina is a country located in the geopolitical location south_america	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
larry_hughes is an athlete who led chicago_bulls	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
bobby_jones is an athlete who wins u_s__open	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
washington_d_c_ is a city also known as saint_louis	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
digital_photography is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9