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
u_s__district_judge_henry_h__kennedy is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
international_standards_organisation is a professional organization	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
san_francisco_chamber is a political organization that is not part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	90.4
afro_asian_games is a sporting event	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
seville_diner_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
rick_neuheisel coaches the team ucla	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
the home stadium of ryan_dempster is wrigley_field	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
moses has brother peter	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
p_j__brown is a person also known as j_p__howell	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
asdrubal_cabrera plays for the team indians	1116	12-sep-2018	96.9