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
tastefully_decorated_guest_rooms is an office building room	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
page_fill is an office supply	1111	06-jul-2018	95.4
luxury_cars_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
interface_response is a machine-learning conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
bad_storm is a weather phenomenon	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
lupron is a drug worked on by abbot_laboratories	1114	25-aug-2018	98.4
matt_williams plays for the team indians	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
eve is the mother of g_d	1114	25-aug-2018	96.9
new_york_stock_exchange terminated the employment of richard_grasso	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
baton_rouge is the capital city of the state or province louisiana	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0