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
credit_mortgage_financing is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
public_consultation_session is a perception action	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
thunderstorm_wind is a weather phenomenon	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
michael_knowles is a chef	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
gerald_sensabaugh is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
phil_knight created the organziation nike	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
ford is a company that produces tempo	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
paul001 contributed to the creative work acts	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
canadian_islamic_congress is headquartered in the country canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
j_p__ricciardi is a person also known as p_j__brown	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0