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
same_american is an ethnic group	1111	06-jul-2018	96.0
first_professional_loss is an event outcome	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
harper__s_bazaar_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
gary_locke is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
inch_round is a geometric shape	1111	06-jul-2018	94.3
spiders is an arthropod as well as spider also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
contact_the_ministry is a synonym for affairs	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
chipmunks is an animal that eats seeds	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
vauxhall is a specific automobile maker dealer in _uk	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
linda_marie_bollea is a person also known as linda_hogan	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0