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
port_of_bandar_neka is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
commercial_finance_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
score_bad_credit is an office supply	1111	06-jul-2018	94.2
felonious_homicide ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
war_eagle_cave is a cave	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
vi is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
national is a bank that bought dena_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
home is found in volcano	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
canadian_islamic_congress has official website canadianislamiccongress_com	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the companies new_york_world and new_york compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8