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
party_dla_national_renewal_or_parena is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
wedh_tv is a TV station	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
priority_mail_flat_rate_envelopes is an office supply	1111	06-jul-2018	96.2
penzance_airport is an airport	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
endurance_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1112	24-jul-2018	99.8
masi_oka is a person who has residence in the city los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n6_08_pm is the time of the event strong_earthquake_shakes_northern_thailand	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kxla is a TV station in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
college hired carroll	1113	15-aug-2018	98.4
china is a country also known as britain	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0