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
yasmeen_ghauri is a female	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
designer_bathroom is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
em_poker_texas_hole_em_poker is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
keith_pearson is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
van_tran_flat_bridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	97.8
piedmont_road is a street in the city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
chicken is an animal that eats wild_mushroom	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
hilton_miami_airport is a hotel in the city miami	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
buffalo_niagara_international_airport is an attraction that will be fall in city buffalo	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
denver_international is an airport in the city boulder	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0