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
kokanee_springs_golf_resort is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
vuelta_ciclista_a_la_communidad_de_madrid is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
fastcompany is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
_390_00 is a year	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
rachel_stepsen is a European person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.5
robert_kennedy has brother jfk	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
super_bowl_xliv_the_indianapolis_colts is a sports team that won the division	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
linda_hogan is a person who has residence in the city miami_beach	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
pete_sampras is an athlete who beat agassi	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
lg_electronics_inc was responsible for lg_2014_smart_tvs__everything_you_need_to_know	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0