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
six_nobel_prizes is a film festival	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
word_democracy is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	92.3
ngo_committee is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
crown_whitefly is an insect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
native_polish is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
dh is an athlete that flied out to position center	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
air_canada_center is a tourist attraction in the city toronto	1116	12-sep-2018	99.0
inger_gleerup died in the country bulgaria	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
national is a bank that bought dhanalakshmi_bank	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
charlie_savage is a journalist that writes for the publication times	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0