Google Lens
E35328
Google Lens is an image recognition and search tool by Google that uses artificial intelligence to identify objects, text, and scenes from a device’s camera or photos and provide relevant information or actions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Google Lens canonical | 2 |
| Visual Look Up | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T272035 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Google Lens Context triple: [Google Photos, integratesWith, Google Lens]
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A.
Google Brain
Google Brain is a deep learning research team at Google that pioneered many advances in neural networks and artificial intelligence.
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B.
Google Photos
Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and management service that offers automatic backup, organization, sharing, and powerful search features using Google’s AI.
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C.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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D.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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E.
DALL·E
DALL·E is an AI model developed by OpenAI that generates images from natural language descriptions, enabling text-to-image synthesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Google Lens Target entity description: Google Lens is an image recognition and search tool by Google that uses artificial intelligence to identify objects, text, and scenes from a device’s camera or photos and provide relevant information or actions.
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A.
Google Brain
Google Brain is a deep learning research team at Google that pioneered many advances in neural networks and artificial intelligence.
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B.
Google Photos
Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and management service that offers automatic backup, organization, sharing, and powerful search features using Google’s AI.
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C.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, known for its significant docks and role in regional maritime trade.
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D.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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E.
DALL·E
DALL·E is an AI model developed by OpenAI that generates images from natural language descriptions, enabling text-to-image synthesis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artificial intelligence application
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image recognition tool ⓘ mobile application ⓘ visual search tool ⓘ |
| announcedAt |
Google I/O 2017
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linked to:
Google I/O
|
| availableVia |
Chrome browser
ⓘ
linked to:
Google Chrome
Google Assistant ⓘ Google Camera ⓘ
linked to:
Google Camera app
Google Photos ⓘ Google app ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| feature |
QR code scanning
ⓘ
barcode scanning ⓘ contextual actions from text ⓘ copy text from images ⓘ identify animals ⓘ identify landmarks ⓘ identify plants ⓘ object identification ⓘ product search ⓘ real-time translation ⓘ search similar images ⓘ shopping suggestions ⓘ smart text selection ⓘ text recognition ⓘ |
| inputType |
camera stream
ⓘ
screenshots ⓘ stored photos ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2017-10 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| outputType |
contextual information
ⓘ
search results ⓘ suggested actions ⓘ |
| owner |
Google LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Google
|
| partOf | Google ecosystem ⓘ |
| platform |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
image recognition
ⓘ
visual search ⓘ |
| supportsAction |
call phone numbers from recognized text
ⓘ
copy recognized text to clipboard ⓘ open URLs from recognized text ⓘ save contact information from business cards ⓘ search for products to buy ⓘ translate recognized text ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
computer vision ⓘ machine learning ⓘ optical character recognition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Google Lens Description of subject: Google Lens is an image recognition and search tool by Google that uses artificial intelligence to identify objects, text, and scenes from a device’s camera or photos and provide relevant information or actions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.