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
jillians_las_vegas is a building	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
giant_deer is an animal	1111	06-jul-2018	95.3
_18_months is a parlour game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
disaster_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
queste_applicazioni is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
cells is a subpart of the body within tissue	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
ryan_phillippe starred in the movie cruel_intentions	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4
countrywide is a bank that has angelo_r__mozilo as its CEO	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
enrique_iglesias was born in the city madrid	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bangkok is the capital city of the country thailand	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0