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
northern_awu_yi___language is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	98.8
le_centre_sheraton_montreal_hotel is a place to ski	1111	06-jul-2018	90.1
fastest_growing_financial_crime ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
city_county_credit_union_st_paul_mn is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n1932_los_angeles_olympics is an instance of the olympics	1111	06-jul-2018	93.7
nissan is a specific automobile maker dealer in mission	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
wilhelm has citizenship in the country prussia	1112	24-jul-2018	99.2
holey_grail___the_mechanism_of_transport_through_the_nuclear_pore_of_cells occurrs at the date april_17__2013	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
giants_stadium is the home venue for the sports team eventual_super_bowl_champion_new_york_giants	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
sheila_dixon is a person who has residence in the geopolitical location baltimore	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0