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
life_guard is a profession	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
islet_amyloid_polypeptide is a protein	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
randy_wolf is a Mexican person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sape is a musical instrument	1111	06-jul-2018	96.2
pale_yellow_glow is a perception event	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
technology concerns information	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
raytheon is headquartered in the city lexington	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
congo_river empties into river congo	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kia is a specific automobile maker dealer in south_korea	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
commission_junction_and_linkshare is an organization known by the acronym commission_junction	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0