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
canon_georgia is an island	1111	06-jul-2018	96.0
ford_bronco_engines is a kind of automobile engine	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
movie_a_shot_in_the_dark is a movie	1111	06-jul-2018	100.0
universal_studios is an organization	1114	25-aug-2018	100.0
color_image_acquisition is form of visual art	1111	06-jul-2018	97.9
jones is a person who graduated from the university college	1112	24-jul-2018	100.0
washington_road is a street in the city augusta	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
yma_sumac held the position of soprano	1115	03-sep-2018	100.0
hollywood_bowl is a sports game that took place on the date n2005	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0
ne is a sate or province located in the country usa	1116	12-sep-2018	100.0