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
comfort_inn_chester is a tourist attraction	1111	06-jul-2018	94.3
movie_license_to_wed is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sofware_capacity is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
naruto_gekitou_ninja_taisen_4 is software	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
ryan_conroy is an Australian person	1111	06-jul-2018	98.0
florence_nightingale has spouse mother	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
steve001 works for design	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
tom_delay is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
kboo is a radio station in the city portland	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
eve is the mother of garden001	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0