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
communist_new_people_s_army is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
epri_study is a research project	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
n1__cups is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
hampton_inn_milford is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	96.7
tim_marx is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.3
dallas_fort_worth_international_airport is an attraction that will be fall in city dallas	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
princess_margaret is a person born on the date n1930	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
standard_life_investments is a shareholder in the company royal_dutch_shell	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
albert_pujols is an athlete coached by tony_fernandez	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
satan is the father of eden	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0