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
araneus_obscuratus is an arachnid	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
eagles_landing_winery is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
temporary_health_insurance is an economic sector	1112	24-jul-2018	99.7
cotton_bath_rugs is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	97.2
chateau_whistler_resort is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	90.3
gt is a company also known as goodyear	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
alicia graduated from state_university	1113	15-aug-2018	99.6
sheraton_los_angeles_downtown_hotel is a hotel in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kitty_piercy is the leader of the city eugene	1116	12-sep-2018	96.4
wade is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9