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
new_114_scale_radio_remote is an item often found in a bedroom	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
joey_votto is a Mexican person	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
italian_market_shopping_center is a shopping mall	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
marlins is an organization	1113	15-aug-2018	100.0
medstar_health is a hospital	1111	06-jul-2018	94.9
west_virginia hired huggins	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
andrea_mantegna is a visual artist in the field of paintings	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
national is a bank that bought bank_of_india	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
annihilator is a musician in the genre thrash_metal	1111	06-jul-2018	99.1
terry_stotts coaches the team bucks	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8