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
ealing_broadway_station is a skyscraper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
university_of_phoenix_wichita_campus is a university	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
psp_3000_slim is a consumer electronic device	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
meg_recordings is a record label	1111	06-jul-2018	98.7
odfjell is a company	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
fred_goodwin is a person who belongs to the organization scotland	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8
lake_jackson is a lake in the state or province florida	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lincoln_center_for_the_performing_arts is a museum in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
aon is a company in the economic sector of insurance	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
star is a building located in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6