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
bill_mueller is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fruitland_township is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
house_agriculture_and_natural_resources_committee is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
amoxycillin is an archaeon	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
ten_conferences is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
tim_burton starred in the movie batman	1115	03-sep-2018	99.8
stevenson was born in the city bloomington	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
people_ is headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
j_p__arencibia is a person also known as p_j__brown	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
rosalynn_carter has spouse carter	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4