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
ryka_walking_shoes is a kind of clothing	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
espoo_museum_of_modern_art is a museum	1111	06-jul-2018	91.9
day_events is a TV show	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
money_magazine is a blog	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
grosse_ile_municipal_airport is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
joseph_conrad wrote the book the_secret_agent	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
rachel graduated from college	1114	25-aug-2018	94.1
chrissie_hynde is a musician who is part of pretenders	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
government is a person who has age nonneginteger:n20	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
wilmington is a city located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8