Google's Cloud Video API recognizes an incredible range of objects and activities, allowing the Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 to identify 11,253 distinct visual entities across a decade of evening television news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC. This is not the complete list of all entities that the Video API recognizes, just the list of entities that it saw in the more limited domain of evening news broadcasts 2009-2020. What are all of the entities that the Video API is able to recognize? To help researchers find the entities most aligned with their research questions, we've compiled a master spreadsheet of all 11,253 distinct entities, the total seconds of airtime they were seen in and Google's unique "MID" identifier code for that entity. Below are the first 13 entries in alphabetical order.
| Name | Count | MID |
| 100 metres hurdles | 1745 | /m/079zcf |
| 110 metres hurdles | 1735 | /m/0bb154 |
| 1937 ford | 10 | /m/0gcy3w |
| 1949 ford | 16 | /m/0glyd8 |
| 1952 ford | 16 | /m/0gl_d9 |
| 1955 ford | 28 | /m/0gm02k |
| 1957 chevrolet | 128 | /m/081tx_ |
| 1957 ford | 16 | /m/0gm1g3 |
| 3d modeling | 101814 | /m/02p30vv |
| 3×3 basketball | 673 | /m/0ch1v_m |
| 4 100 metres relay | 2558 | /m/067_4k |
| 4 400 metres relay | 1402 | /m/06882p |
| 800 metres | 3656 | /m/02slmm |
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Creating the spreadsheet above took just a single line of SQL and 4.6 seconds to process through 485 million annotations.
SELECT entity.name Entity, count(1) Count, APPROX_TOP_COUNT(entity.mid, 1)[OFFSET(0)].value FROM `gdelt-bq.gdeltv2.vgegv2_iatv`, unnest(entities) entity where length(entity.name) > 1 group by Entity order by Entity asc
They can also be ordered by count:
SELECT entity.name entity, count(1) count FROM `gdelt-bq.gdeltv2.vgegv2_iatv`, unnest(entities) entity where length(entity.name) > 1 group by Entity order by count desc