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
iron_finial is a building material	1111	06-jul-2018	98.3
millennium_footbridge is a bridge	1111	06-jul-2018	97.7
ceramic_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
the_decay_of_the_angel is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
arteria_thyreoidea_caudalis is an artery	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
crickets is a type of insects	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kerala is a sate or province located in the country india	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
houston_oilers is a sports team that won the super_bowl	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
the country guyana uses the currency dollars	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
granite_peak is a mountain in the state or province montana	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0