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
white_bean_chilli_soup_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
german_polish is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
tallapoosa_sculpin is a fish	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lashonda_bean is a legume	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
alaska_airlines is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
cambridge is a city located in the state or province massachusetts	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
evening is an organization dissolved at the date october	1113	15-aug-2018	99.2
klaus_meine is a musician who is part of scorpions	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9
the_united_kingdom is an organization known by the acronym uk_	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
terry_moran works for abc_news	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8