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
girl_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
john_scott is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
oakland_community_college_auburn_hills is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
links_links_masters is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
newfoundland_new_jersey is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
royal_free_and_university_college_medical_school is a sports team that plays in the league international	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
tokyo_international_airport is an airport in the city tokyo	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
stanford hired johnny_dawkins	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
peter_sellers is an actor that worked with the director blake_edwards	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought uco_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0