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
scott_spencer is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
monte_carlo_simulation is a scientific term	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
grill_house_spice_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
sam_daniel is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	90.6
lesser_snow_goose is an animal	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
cat is an animal that is a kind of feline_friends	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
bedroom is often found in site	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
the country namibia uses the currency dollar	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
eddie_royal coaches in the league nfl	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
linda_hogan is a person who has residence in the city belleair	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0