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
icie is a conference	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
from_past_to_the_grave is a musical album	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
michigan_department_of_corrections is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
port_of_xiamen is a transportation port	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
moulton_used_farm is a farm	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
isaiah and lord are siblings	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
topeka is the capital city of the state or province ks	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ciudad_ju_rez is the capital city of the country mexico	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
magic is a sports team that plays against denver_nuggets	1111	06-jul-2018	98.4
jay_smith died in the state or province texas	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0