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
saddleback_pond is a lake	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
baldwin_beach is a trail	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
eagle_wall_clock is an item found on a wall	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
college_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
regency_plaza is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
youtube terminated the employment of chad_hurley	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
celeste_center is a tourist attraction in the city columbus	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
brooklyn_academy_of_music is a museum in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
villanova_university is a sports team that plays in the league international	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
highlands_hospital is a hospital in the city central_london	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0