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
b_la_tarr is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
jordan_cabernet_sauvignon is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
turkey_stuffing_recipes is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
com_home is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ms___jacobson is a person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
bed is often found in style_room	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the coach franco_harris won the trophy or tournament super_bowl_xlii	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
advanced_micro_devices is a company also known as amd	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
club is a kind of equipment for the sport sports	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6
maharastra is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0