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
lactobacillus_paracasei_subsp__paracasei is a bacterium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
greeley_philharmonic is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
n01_06_2012 is a dataset used within the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
john_bernard ia a celebrity	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
brukenthal_national_museum is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	92.7
gmc is a company also known as general_motors	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
harvey_araton is a journalist that writes for the publication new_york_times	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
large_herds refers to more than one wildebeest	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
los_angeles_international is an attraction that will be fall in city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
montgomery is the capital city of the state or province alabama	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0