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
kurs is a radio station	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
full_daylight is a perception event	1111	06-jul-2018	97.4
judge_last_friday is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	98.2
braxton_hotel is a tourist attraction	1111	06-jul-2018	94.5
emily_rutherfurd is a North American person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.5
father is the father of saviour	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
wgst is a radio station in the city atlanta	1116	12-sep-2018	99.1
arts is an academic program at the university baptist_university	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
kia is a specific automobile maker dealer in canada	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
mary is the parent of new_orleans_saints	1115	03-sep-2018	99.6