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
david_silva is an author in the scientific field of machine learning	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n9_30_a_m__6_p_m_ is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sushmita_sen__aishwarya_rai ia a celebrity	1111	06-jul-2018	90.7
black_legged_tick is an arthropod	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
white_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sony is a company also known as samsung	1114	25-aug-2018	93.8
great_artery arises from left_ventricle	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
j__k__rowling contributed to the creative work harry_potter_and_the_goblet_of_fire	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
the sport baseball was played at alds	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
night is the time of the event kiev_protesters_attack_building_with_police_inside	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0