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
movie_gosford_park is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
icpm is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	98.6
beautiful_gold is a color	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cindy_cox ia a celebrity	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
american_computer is an item found on a table	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
bobby_brown has wife whitney_houston	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
marketing___marketing_management is an academic program at the university college	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
shaq_o_neal is an athlete also known as shaquille_oneal	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
center is a museum in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
laurence_maroney plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	90.7