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
ennis_cave is a cave	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
car___truck is a kind of vehicle	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
real_estate_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
national_human_resources_association is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
asia_magazines is a kind of media	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
eastman_kodak_company is a company that has an office in the city rochester	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1950_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brown_recluse is an arthropod as well as spiders also is	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
o_hare_intl is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
annise_parker is a person who has residence in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0