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
lancashire_evening_post is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
chalk_hill_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
senator_schumer is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
klm is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
libyan_forces is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
iran is a country located in the geopolitical location foreign_countries	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
bed is often found in one_bed_room	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jeep makes the automobile jeep_commander	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the sports team yankees was the winner of n1958_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
julia has spouse paul001	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8