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
texas_tribune is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
chair_floor_mat is an item found on the floor	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
shaw_s_markets is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
merkel_cell_cancer is a disease	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cornish_national_party is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
china is a country located in the geopolitical location certain_countries	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
zoo_negara is an aquarium in the city kuala_lumpur	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the_united_kingdom is an organization known by the acronym uk_	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
kahlil_gibran wrote the book the_prophet	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
states is a state or province located in the geopolitical location jerusalem	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0