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
adipex_p_37_5 is a product	1111	06-jul-2018	96.3
postgraduate_information_and_communications_technology is an academic field	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_deep_end_of_the_ocean is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_book_of_daniel is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
zinc_acetate is a drug	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
boaz is the parent of obed	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
sherwood_drive is a street in the city augusta	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
national is a bank in taiwan	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
mount_augusta is a mountain in the state or province alaska	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
il is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0