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
em_poker_events is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
chantax_abnormal_thinking is a cognitive action	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
hair_removing_cream is a personal care product	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
txchnologist is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	90.2
mgwirizano_coalition is a political party	1111	06-jul-2018	92.7
cali is a city located in the country colombia	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
national is a bank in panama	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
gene_clark is a musician who is part of byrds	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
china_development_bank is a company that has an office in the country china	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
jamie_dimon is the CEO of chase	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0