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
u_s__house_natural_resources_committee is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sixty_five_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
veronica_hamel is an actor	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
broad_river is a river	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
assemblywoman is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
community_arts is an academic program at the university college	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
carl_weathers is related to carl_weathers	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
rakesh_roshan is the father of hrithik_roshan	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
dreamworks terminated the employment of jeffrey_katzenberg	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
theo_van_gogh held the position of filmmaker	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0