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
western_nc_nature_center is a zoo	1111	06-jul-2018	99.7
driver_s_side_window is an item found on a wall	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
recipe_eggplant_noodles is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
justice_carol_edmead is a judge	1111	06-jul-2018	96.8
super_street_fighter_ii_turbo_hd_remix is a video game	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
oakland_international is an attraction that will be fall in city san_francisco	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
ryuhei_kitamura directed the movie midnight_meat_train	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
abington_memorial is a hospital in the city philadelphia	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
bauchi is a sate or province located in the country nigeria	1116	12-sep-2018	98.4
day_mary is the mother of jesus	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8