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
willis_brown is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	91.2
florida_international_university is a sports team	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
kessler_s_thrush is a bird	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
genevia_arkansas is a beach	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
world_increases is a building	1111	06-jul-2018	93.1
oliver_stone starred in the movie jfk	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
tamilnadu is a state or province located in the geopolitical location india	1115	03-sep-2018	99.2
ma is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
estepona is a city located in the country spain	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2
old_kenyon_hall is related to kenyon_college	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0