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
wichita_city is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sultan_ahmad_shah_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
mole_cricket is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
quality_inn_carneys_point is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	94.4
jenny_mollen is a female	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
los_angeles_ca is a city located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
maria_cantwell represents the region washington	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
jeep is a specific automobile maker dealer in virginia	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
ospel is a person born on the date n1950	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at nlds	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0