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
rushville is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
evening_prom_shoes is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
myspce is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
lions_gate_home_entertainment is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	92.2
protection_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
states is a state or province located in the geopolitical location cancun	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
favre is an athlete who wins super_bowl	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
will_ohman is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
child is an animal that can develop hearing_loss	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
giuliani represents the region new	1115	03-sep-2018	95.7