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
junges_hotel_hamburg is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
kathy_page is a female	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
church_of_resurrection_episcopal is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
two_condenses is a parlour game	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
appropriate_awareness is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
honda is a specific automobile maker dealer in san_antonio	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
lake_burton is a lake in the state or province georgia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
n70_rockets is a type of weapon produced in israel	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
usx_building is a building located in the city pittsburgh	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mickey_thomas is a musician who is part of jefferson_starship	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8