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
catholic_answer_magazine is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
santir is a musical instrument	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
charles_duffy is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
radio_orient is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
banzel is a drug	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
the sports team twins was the winner of n1987_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
richard_pryor001 is a person who died at the age of 65	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
joel_pineiro plays in the league nfl	1116	12-sep-2018	94.8
richmond is a city that lies on the river yarra	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
vt is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0