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
inferior_posterior_nasal_bdddeeranches is a nerve	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
leisure_suit is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
james_fowler is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
catering_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
nigeria_premier_league is a sports league	1114	25-aug-2018	98.1
vernon_gholston plays for the team new_york_jets	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
keith_richards is a musician who is part of rolling_stones	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
state is a person who has age nonneginteger:n11	1116	12-sep-2018	99.9
jeep makes the automobile jeep_wrangler	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
henry was born in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2