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
independent_newspapers_group is an organization	1112	24-jul-2018	99.5
battle_of_keren is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
david_boone is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
entire_conference_room is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
islamic_jihad_and_popular_resistance_committees is a terrorist organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
marshawn_lynch plays for the team bills	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nick_berg died in the country iraq	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
amir_johnson and maxiell are teammates	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
the country jamaica uses the currency dollars	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
clint_eastwood contributed to the creative work gran_torino	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8