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
shabda_raaj is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
jangle_punk is a genre of music	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
commercial_capital_bancorp_inc is a biotech company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
subtendinous_prepatellar_bursa is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	97.5
usability_professionals___association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
motor is a sport with fans in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
miller001 is a person who graduated from the university state_university	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
arabic is the language of the country algeria	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
anti_rifle is a generalization of nuclear_missile	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
climbing is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9