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
holdemnl_hold is a non-sports, non-electronic game	1111	06-jul-2018	94.3
silvano_s_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sam_houston_national_cemetery is a place of worship	1112	24-jul-2018	99.9
the_family_handyman_magazine is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
inguinal_nodes is a lymph node	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
madison_bumgarner plays for the team eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
yugoslav_federation is a country located in the geopolitical location romania	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
brewers is a sports team also known as former_green_bay_packers	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
deutsche_bank terminated the employment of josef_ackermann	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
the companies video_clip and youtube compete with eachother	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8