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
texashold_m_websites is a cardgame	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
missouri_student_federal_credit_union is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
may_17_election is an election	1111	06-jul-2018	95.7
tisanes is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	92.5
clear_princess is a geometric shape	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
jobs is a person who moved to the state indiana	1115	03-sep-2018	99.8
national is a bank that bought deutsche	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
spiders is called orb_weavers	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
kimpton is a hotel in the city boston	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
public_relations is an academic program at the university state_university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0