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
saint_andrew_united_methodist_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
cody_pickett is an athlete	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
iron_mold is a fungus	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
rowan_tree_country_hotel is a hotel	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
can_t_stop_myself_from_loving_you is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
new_england_patriots is a sports team that plays the sport football	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
jeff_porcaro is a musician who is part of toto	1113	15-aug-2018	99.8
larry_i__rougle is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location utah	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
basketball is a sport played in the venue new_orleans_arena	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
weather is an organization dissolved at the date april	1113	15-aug-2018	99.2