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
morris_hirshfield is a visual artist	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
muscle_car_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
swollen_lymph_nodes_cushings is a lymph node	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
battle_of_kesselsdorf is a military conflict	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
comment___related_posts is software used by machine-learning scientists	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
huawei_technologies competes with the company responsible for samsung_galaxy_gear	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
santiago_de_compostela is a city located in the country spain	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
beds is often found in standard	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
jeep is a company that produces jeep_grand_cherokee	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
sharm_el_sheikh is a city located in the geopolitical location egypt	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9