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
blinded_veterans_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
zoolandia is a zoo	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
n1__cups is an item found in the kitchen	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
nueva_york is a location	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
alfred_prescott is a monarch	1111	06-jul-2018	96.8
yugoslav_federation is a country located in the geopolitical location kosovo	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
top is found in valley	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
expository_preaching is an academic program at the university seminary	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
chris_hughes has wife amanda	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
smithsonian_national_zoological_park is a zoo in the city washington___d___c__	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0