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
lassi is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	98.1
richard_claus is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
_1250 is an award, championship, or tournament trophy	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
across_the_face_of_the_world is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
exciting_bird is a vertebrate	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
hartsfield_international is an attraction that will be fall in city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
bed is often found in accessible_room	1115	03-sep-2018	99.8
new_yorker_magazine is headquartered in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
algiers is a city located in the geopolitical location algeria	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
bloomberg is a company headquartered in the city nueva_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0