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
the_snarkout_boys_and_the_avocado_of_death is a book	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
bell_bean is a fruit	1112	24-jul-2018	99.5
jerry_creek is a river	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
megamind__ultimate_showdown is software	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
crasher_engineering is an area of study within the field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
schiphol_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
frank_williams is a top member of williams_jeep	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
athletics is a sport taught in the country south_africa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
xml_feed_tweet_seattle_mariners is a sports team that played in two_games	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
cape_town is the capital city of the country south_africa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0