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
creem_magazine is a newspaper	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
saint_francis_saint_clare_church is a religion	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the_barbirolli_string_quartet is a musical artist	1111	06-jul-2018	99.2
romanian_romanian is a language	1111	06-jul-2018	99.6
scott_cohen is a commedian	1111	06-jul-2018	92.4
dome is an attraction made of concrete	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
the sport baseball was played at n1966_world_series	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
haugesund is a city located in the country norway	1116	12-sep-2018	93.8
westminster_abbey is a place of worship that practices the religion of christianity	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
new_republic is a company headquartered in the city new_york	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0