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
judge_mushtaq_khokhar is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	96.5
kitakyushu_city is a city	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
battle_of_montenotte is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
voter_rights is a socio-political term	1111	06-jul-2018	94.7
serious_disciplinary_violations ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
honda_center is the home venue for the sports team oregon_ducks	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
anne_perry wrote the book execution_dock	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
salman_rushdie contributed to the creative work midnight_s_children	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
un is headquartered in the country us	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
cells is a subpart of the body within term	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8