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
huertas is a currency	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
wellesley_bancorp_inc is a biotech company	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
congressional_representative is a kind of office held by a politician	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ventricularis is a vein	1111	06-jul-2018	98.6
byron_chung is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
enid_blyton contributed to the creative work noddy	1113	15-aug-2018	96.9
cardinals_27_23 is a sports team that won the nfl_championship	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
fleur_de_lys is a restaurant in the city las_vegas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
music_history is an academic program at the university college	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
nady and gardner are teammates	1112	24-jul-2018	93.8