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
n05_18_2011 is a date	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
last_minute_valentine is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
decorated_guestrooms is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
c_t_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
creation_computer is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
the sports team yankees was the winner of alds	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
dodger_stadium is the home venue for the sports team los_angeles_dodgers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
end is an event at the location new_south_wales	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
tamilnadu is a state or province located in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	99.2
paul001 is a person who has attended the school institute	1114	25-aug-2018	99.2