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
istro_romanian is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
chie_mihara_shoes is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
caccamo is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
st___thomas_church is a place of worship	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
drosophila_fruit_fly is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marques_colston and brees are teammates	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
aaron_rodgers is a person also known as j_p__ricciardi	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
wcbi is a TV affiliate of the network cbs_evening_news	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
new_hampshire is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
communities is a generalization of member	1114	25-aug-2018	99.8