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
szechwan_peppercorns is a food	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
movie_hudson_hawk is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jelly_beans_strawberry_daiquiri is a kind of candy	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
margarita_mix is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
angel_mounds_state_historic_site is a monument	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
national is a company that has an office in the country iran	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
minnesota_wilds is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
youth_soccer is a sport taught in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
linda_hogan has husband hulk_hogan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
miguel_de_cervantes_saavedra wrote the book don_quixote	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8