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
fastest_growing_financial_crime ia a crime or charge	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
los_senos is a currency	1111	06-jul-2018	99.8
cumberland_county_6162_9160_77_wilmington_newark is a county	1111	06-jul-2018	99.9
lina_wertm_ller is a director	1111	06-jul-2018	92.6
sri_lankan_workers is a trade union	1111	06-jul-2018	91.7
jemima_goldsmith got married in n1995	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
miller_park is a stadium or event venue located in the city downtown_milwaukee	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
sun is the father of moon	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
john_steinbeck wrote the book to_a_god_unknown	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
indira_gandhi_international_airport is a generalization of temple_of_the_reclining_buddha	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0