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
physical_therapy_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
kuwait_finance_house is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	94.0
metal_beds_complete is a kind of furniture	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
paris_brest_paris is a sports race	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lindsey_davis is a journalist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
philadelphia is a city that lies on the river grand	1113	15-aug-2018	99.6
wjz is a radio station in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
english is a language used in the university george_washington_university__s_elliott_school	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
manresa_beach is a lake in the state or province california	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dance is a sport taught in the country _uk	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0