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
g_e_f is a programming language	1111	06-jul-2018	95.4
keratoconus_keratoconus is a disease	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
two_georgia is a parlour game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
brooks_brothers_factory_store is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
cheung_wa_biu is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
treasury_department is headquartered in the country u_s_	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
citigroup_global_markets terminated the employment of vikram_s__pandit	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
gner is a transportation system located in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
ohio is a city that lies on the river great_miami	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
churches is an attraction that will be fall in city louisiana	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0