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
newquay_town_centre is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
spring_shoes is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n625_productions_records is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	97.5
seeley_lake is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
vegetarian_dumpling_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
jeep makes the automobile cherokee	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
room_1495 is a room in the building biomedical_science_tower	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
nissan is a specific automobile maker dealer in plano	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the sports leage irl uses the venue daytona_international_speedway	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9
w_bush held the position of president	1115	03-sep-2018	98.4