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
robbie_mcintosh is a musician	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
plastic_containers is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
bone_broth is a visualizable thing	1111	06-jul-2018	96.5
cotacachi_volcano is a mountain range	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
gaza_hospital is a hospital	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
liev_schreiber has wife naomi	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
the coach j_j__hardy won the trophy or tournament world_series	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
n8_00_pm is the time of the event suicide_blast_near_imambargah_kills_nine__injures_50_in_peshawar	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
football is a sport played in the venue heinz_field	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
virgina is a sate or province located in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8