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
karen_lutz is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
movie_ken_park is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
c_t_community_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
muddledness is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
ashtabula_lift_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
james_adams died in the state or province new_jersey	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
folsom_zoo is a zoo in the city folsom	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mr__bush represents the region new	1115	03-sep-2018	96.9
annise_parker is a person who has residence in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
goran_ivanisevic is an athlete who beat agassi	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0