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
possession_offences ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
free_breakfast_buffet is a type of meat	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
dominic_frasca is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	93.0
environmental_rights is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
argentine_snake_necked_turtle is an amphibian	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
salah is the father of eber	1116	12-sep-2018	99.7
bed is often found in romantic_rooms	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
chevrolet is a company that produces caprice	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kiro_am is a radio station in the city seattle	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
education is an academic program at the university george_washington_university__s_elliott_school	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4