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
pinnacle_arkansas is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
alfalfa_blotch_leafminer is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bathrooms___kitchens is a kind of room	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
volvo_truck_engines is a kind of automobile engine	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
united_community_bank_of_north_dakota is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
boating is a sport with fans in the country __america	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
bats is an animal that eats seeds	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n2003_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nichols is a person who has attended the school college	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
lansing is the capital city of the state or province michigan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0