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
world_these is a non-profit organization	1111	06-jul-2018	98.5
marios_restaurant is a restaurant	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
sex_change_procedures is a cognitive action	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
n6_03_pm is a time	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
veg_fried_rice_recipe is a recipe	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
television_broadcasting is an academic program at the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
khiz is a company that has an office in the city los_angeles_ca	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
kvos is a TV affiliate of the network huffington_post	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
richard_anderson is a top member of delta_air_lines_inc_	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
norman_manley_international is an attraction that will be fall in city kingston	1116	12-sep-2018	99.6