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
questo_viaggio is a wine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
pittsburg_county_district_court is a part of the government	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
lawrence_park_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
manuel_laguillo is a South American person	1111	06-jul-2018	95.7
fort_dodge_iowa is an island	1111	06-jul-2018	97.6
china is a country also known as egypt	1111	06-jul-2018	93.8
wvit_tv is a TV station in the city hartford_connecticut	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
oakland_international is an attraction that will be fall in city san_francisco	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
president_obama is a person who belongs to the organization house	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
white is a person who has age 19	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0