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
jelly_beans_pina_colada is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
coffee_coffee is a café	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
artesia_high_school is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
terri_mcdonald is a professor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
bliss_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
john_kerry is a person who has residence in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jacksonville_jaguars is a sports team that played in games	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
ganden_monastery is a place of worship that practices the religion of buddhism	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
marie has citizenship in the country austria	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
human_powered_data_management occurrs at the date april_3__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0