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
kevin_nelson is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wkxg is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
fion_lim is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
fastest_growing_financial_crime ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ristoratori is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
kiku001 is a TV station in the city honolulu	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
llamas is an animal that is a kind of larger_animals	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
nhl is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a company that has an office in the country nepal	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
los_angeles_ca is a synonym for la	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4