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
grand_prix_tournament is an award, championship, or tournament trophy	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
education_history is an academic field	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
excellence_award_this_award is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
megaman_starforce_2__zerker_x_ninja is software	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
pumpkin_cubes is a visualizable thing	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
bed is often found in one_bedroom_cabins	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
theodor_kollek died in the city jerusalem	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
collins is a person who moved to the state california	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
joe_strummer is a musician who is part of clash	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
whitney_houston and steve_schalchlin are family members	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0