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
palestinian_president_yasser_arafat is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
three_lined_salamander is a reptile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
breakfast_home is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sri_lankan_workers is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
monstrous_fraud ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
bayswater is a park in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
j_r__towles is a person also known as linas_kleiza	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
antonio is a city located in the geopolitical location ut	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
bed is often found in fireplace	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
federal_trade_commission is headquartered in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0