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
natural_resources_protection_act is a legislative bill	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
georg_raphael_donner is a visual artist	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
em_poker_texas_holdm_poker is a sporting event	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
linda_kozlowski is a Canadian person	1111	06-jul-2018	92.1
internal_nasal_branches_of_infra_orbital_nerve is a nerve	1111	06-jul-2018	98.3
washington_d_c_ is a city also known as albany	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
elkton is a city located in the state or province maryland	1116	12-sep-2018	99.8
tv looks like area	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
deutsche_bank terminated the employment of josef_ackermann	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
kentucky is a company in the economic sector of insurance	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0