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
scorer_s_table is an item found on the floor	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
police_weaponry is a weapon	1111	06-jul-2018	97.0
the_fine_arts_museum_of_san_francisco is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_jane_austen_book_club is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
music_favorite_music is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
steve001 is a person who belongs to the organization world	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
brad_pitt starred in the movie troy	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
san_jose is a city located in the country costa_rica	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
george_carlin is a person who died at the age of nonneginteger:n71	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
linda has husband michael	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0