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
united_kingdom___rutland is a country	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
home__design_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
class_help is a machine-learning conference	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
manuel_piar is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	96.4
bean_crops is a fruit	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
canal is a subpart of the body within nerve_roots	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
apopka is a city located in the state or province florida	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
easyjet is a company that has an office in the city milan	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
spaghetti_straps is a clothing item to go with dresses	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
uppsala is a city located in the country sweden	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4