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
berkeley_county_circuit_court is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_nashville_ledger is a political blog	1111	06-jul-2018	98.9
celebratory_wine is a beverage	1111	06-jul-2018	94.2
james_harrington is a writer	1111	06-jul-2018	91.4
ixquick__com is a website	1111	06-jul-2018	92.9
el_observador is a newspaper in the city san_francisco	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kcal is a TV station in the city los_angeles_ca	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
new_york_islanders_5_3_saturday_night is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
lubbock is the capital city of the state or province texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the sports team yankees was the winner of alds	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8