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
kumarakom_hotels is a park	1111	06-jul-2018	90.9
i_hear_a_symphony is a song	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
world_india is an aquarium	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ickp is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.3
texas_dow_employees_credit_union is a bank	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
kxla is a company that has an office in the city los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
jerusalem is the capital city of the state or province jewish_state	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
la_libre_belgique is a newspaper in the city brussels	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9
meryl_streep starred in the movie sophie_s_choice	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
sleepy_hollow_presbyterian_church is a place of worship that practices the religion of presbyterianism	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0