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
indonesian_french is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
poker_stratigies is a board game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
barry_zito is a Mexican person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
em_poker_bet is a sporting event	1112	24-jul-2018	99.1
adelaide_airport is a transportation port	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
steve_spurrier is a person who belongs to the organization usc	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
blue_jays is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
business is a type of management	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
u_s__sen_ is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location georgia	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
calgery_zoo is a zoo in the city calgery	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0