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
n1985_study is a research project	1111	06-jul-2018	97.8
new_truth_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
canada_for is a geopolitical entity that is an organization	1111	06-jul-2018	94.4
corinium_hotel is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
walter_lang is a male	1111	06-jul-2018	99.0
blessed_virgin and son are family members	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
howard_schultz works for starbucks	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
crustaceans is a type of prawns	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
gardiner_museum is a museum in the city toronto	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
rodin is a visual artist in the field of drawings	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8