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
o_cajcen_seafood_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lusaka_airport is an airport	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
jan_janssen is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
untrainedness is an emotion	1111	06-jul-2018	95.5
massage_shower_cabinet is an item often found in a bathroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
esquire_magazine is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
holey_grail___the_mechanism_of_transport_through_the_nuclear_pore_of_cells occurrs at the date april_17__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
st__louis_cardinals_catchers_yadier_molina is an athlete who injured his/her arms	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
kelly is a person who moved to the state california	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
tom_delay is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0