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
mewari_dialect is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
cotherix_inc is a biotech company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_real_life_of_sebastian_knight is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
city_credit_union_independence_mo is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
world_pulse is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
flea an arthropod that can be very irritating to mammal ferret	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
logan was born in the city chicago_south	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
wrbl is a TV station in the city columbus	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
cbs_corp is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
new_york_mets is an organization created at the date n1962	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0