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
volunteer_undergraduate_students is a victim	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
ramus_communicans_of_spinal_nerve is a nerve	1111	06-jul-2018	97.3
yau_fung is an Asian person	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
michaels is a retail store	1111	06-jul-2018	93.3
andrea_corr is a fashion model	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
rsa_in_the_real_world occurrs at the date april_8__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
san_antonio is a city that lies on the river nueces	1112	24-jul-2018	96.9
hockey is a sport played in the venue madison_square_garden	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
richt is a person who belongs to the organization georgia	1111	06-jul-2018	96.9
wcau is a TV affiliate of the network nbc_news	1116	12-sep-2018	99.2