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
mc_adenville is a visualizable scene	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
serials_review is a publication	1111	06-jul-2018	91.1
john_garcia is a U.S. politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
c_w_a__long_island_federal_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
indiana_university_of_pennsylvania is a school	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
receiver_dez_bryant and kendall_hunter are teammates	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
gerald_ford001 is a person who died at the age of 93	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
contemporary_art is a museum in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	99.4
los_angeles_ca participated in the event series	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
phillips is a person who graduated from the university college	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4