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
william_sloan is an architect	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
comfort_suites_jacksonville is a tourist attraction	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
united_kingdom___cumbria is a country	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
yu_zhen is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
scale_awareness is a character trait	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
uncompahgre_peak is a mountain in the state or province colorado	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
winnipeg_jets is headquartered in the state or province new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6
easyjet is a company that has an office in the city uk	1112	24-jul-2018	98.4
maine is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
abelson_hall is a building belonging to wsu	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0