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
instruction_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
gary_locke is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
roane_state_community_college_oak_ridge_campus is a train station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
new_zealand_mantis_shrimp is a crustacean	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
chocolate_truffle_cookies is a baked good	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
president_obama is a U.S. politician who is a member of the political group senate	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2
tony_gonzalez and dwayne_bowe are teammates	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
national is a company that has an office in the country taiwan	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
hyundai is a company also known as samsung	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
the sports leage irl uses the venue daytona_international_speedway	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9