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
el_milagro_farm is a farm	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
hahniidae is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
lagoon_view_rooms is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
jordan_mountain is a mountain	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cuanza_norte is a state or a province	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
shakira is a musician in the genre pop	1112	24-jul-2018	91.5
will_rogers_world is an attraction that will be fall in city oklahoma_city	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
grange_hotel is a hotel in the city toronto	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
carbon is a chemical that is a kind of area	1114	25-aug-2018	99.8
hoeppner is a person who belongs to the organization indiana	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0