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
collinsville_hotels is a park	1111	06-jul-2018	90.5
projects_link is a criminal	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
round_cedar_table is a kind of furniture	1111	06-jul-2018	99.5
michael_hogan is a CEO	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n12148 is a ZIP code	1111	06-jul-2018	99.4
sweden_stockholm is the capital city of the country sweden	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
football_players is a generalization of favre	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
apopka is a city located in the state or province florida	1115	03-sep-2018	93.8
ford is a company that produces expedition	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
thomas_mann is related to thomas_mann	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0