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
modern_guitars_magazine is a magazine	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
university_credit_union_maine is a credit union	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
n02_21_2008 is a date	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
british_leyland_motor_corporation is an automobile manufacturer	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
domaine_berrien_cellars is a winery	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
father is the parent of saviour	1115	03-sep-2018	99.8
kahlil_gibran wrote the book the_prophet	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
cable looks like plans	1113	15-aug-2018	93.8
english is a language used in the university ohio_state_university	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
komo_tv is a company that has an office in the city seattle	1112	24-jul-2018	99.9