Google Translate
E13763
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service by Google that instantly converts text, speech, images, and web pages between numerous languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Google Translate canonical | 4 |
| Live Translate | 4 |
| Google Neural Machine Translation system | 1 |
| Google Translation API | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T122724 — 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 Translate Context triple: [Google Chrome, integratesWith, Google Translate]
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A.
Skype
Skype is a widely used internet-based communication service that enables voice calls, video chats, and instant messaging across computers and mobile devices.
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B.
English Bridge
English Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge spanning the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
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C.
Paipai language
The Paipai language is an indigenous Yuman language spoken by the Paipai people of northern Baja California, Mexico, and is considered highly endangered.
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D.
ET
ET is the time standard used on the east coast of North America, including major cities like New York and Toronto, switching between Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) seasonally.
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E.
English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
- 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 Translate Target entity description: Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service by Google that instantly converts text, speech, images, and web pages between numerous languages.
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A.
Skype
Skype is a widely used internet-based communication service that enables voice calls, video chats, and instant messaging across computers and mobile devices.
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B.
English Bridge
English Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge spanning the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
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C.
Paipai language
The Paipai language is an indigenous Yuman language spoken by the Paipai people of northern Baja California, Mexico, and is considered highly endangered.
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D.
ET
ET is the time standard used on the east coast of North America, including major cities like New York and Toronto, switching between Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) seasonally.
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E.
English
English is a widely spoken West Germanic language that serves as a global lingua franca in education, business, science, and international communication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (182)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
machine translation service
ⓘ
neural machine translation system ⓘ |
| availableAs |
browser extension
ⓘ
cloud API ⓘ mobile app ⓘ website ⓘ |
| availableLanguage |
Afrikaans
ⓘ
Albanian language ⓘ
surface form:
Albanian
Amharic ⓘ Arabic ⓘ Classical Armenian ⓘ
surface form:
Armenian
Assamese ⓘ Aymara ⓘ Azerbaijani language ⓘ
surface form:
Azerbaijani
Basque ⓘ Standard Belarusian ⓘ
surface form:
Belarusian
Bengali ⓘ Bhojpuri ⓘ Bosnian ⓘ Bulgarian ⓘ Burmese ⓘ Catalan ⓘ Chichewa ⓘ Chinese ⓘ Corsican language ⓘ
surface form:
Corsican
Croatian ⓘ Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dogri ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ Esperanto ⓘ Estonian ⓘ Fijian languages ⓘ
surface form:
Fijian
Tagalog ⓘ
surface form:
Filipino
Finnish language ⓘ
surface form:
Finnish
French ⓘ Frisian ⓘ Galician language ⓘ
surface form:
Galician
Georgian language ⓘ
surface form:
Georgian
German ⓘ Greek ⓘ Guaraní ⓘ
surface form:
Guarani
Gujarati ⓘ Haitian Creole ⓘ Hausa ⓘ Hawaiian ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Hungarian language ⓘ
surface form:
Hungarian
Icelandic ⓘ Igbo ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Javanese ⓘ Kannada ⓘ Kazakh language ⓘ
surface form:
Kazakh
Khmer ⓘ Kikuyu ⓘ Kinyarwanda ⓘ Korean ⓘ Kurdish language ⓘ
surface form:
Kurdish
Kyrgyz ⓘ Lao ⓘ Latin ⓘ Latvian ⓘ Lingala ⓘ Lithuanian ⓘ Luxembourgish ⓘ Macedonian ⓘ Madurese ⓘ Maithili ⓘ Malay ⓘ Malayalam ⓘ Maltese ⓘ Māori ⓘ
surface form:
Maori
Marathi language ⓘ
surface form:
Marathi
Mongolic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Mongolian
Nepali ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Odia ⓘ Pashto language ⓘ
surface form:
Pashto
Persian language ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
Polish ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi
Quechua ⓘ Romanian language ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian
Russian ⓘ Samoan ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ
surface form:
Scots Gaelic
Northern Sotho (Sepedi) ⓘ
surface form:
Sepedi
South Slavic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Serbian
Sesotho ⓘ Shona ⓘ Sinhala ⓘ Slovak language ⓘ
surface form:
Slovak
Slovenian ⓘ Somali ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Sundanese ⓘ Swahili language ⓘ
surface form:
Swahili
Swedish ⓘ Tajiks ⓘ
surface form:
Tajik
Tamil ⓘ Tatar language ⓘ
surface form:
Tatar
Telugu ⓘ Thai ⓘ Tigrinya ⓘ Tsonga ⓘ Turkish language ⓘ
surface form:
Turkish
Turkmen language ⓘ
surface form:
Turkmen
Ukrainians ⓘ
surface form:
Ukrainian
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
Uyghur language (historically) ⓘ
surface form:
Uyghur
Uzbek ⓘ Vietnamese ⓘ Welsh ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ Yoruba people ⓘ
surface form:
Yoruba
Zulu ⓘ |
| businessModel | freemium ⓘ |
| computingPlatform |
API
ⓘ
Android ⓘ Chrome extension ⓘ iOS ⓘ web application ⓘ |
| developer | Google ⓘ |
| genre |
language technology
ⓘ
translation software ⓘ |
| hasAdvantage |
camera-based translation
ⓘ
free to use for basic features ⓘ instant translation ⓘ integration with other Google products ⓘ offline functionality on mobile ⓘ supports many languages ⓘ |
| hasCriticism |
context and idioms can be mistranslated
ⓘ
may produce grammatically incorrect output ⓘ translation quality varies by language pair ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automatic language detection
ⓘ
conversation mode ⓘ dictionary definitions ⓘ integration with Android system translation ⓘ integration with Google Chrome ⓘ integration with Google Search ⓘ phrasebook ⓘ pronunciation playback ⓘ saved translations ⓘ script conversion ⓘ synonyms and usage examples ⓘ voice input ⓘ |
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| launchDate | April 2006 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| logo | Google Translate logo ⓘ |
| offers |
Google Cloud
ⓘ
surface form:
Cloud Translation API
|
| operatedBy | Google ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ web-based ⓘ |
| owner | Google ⓘ |
| partOf |
Google Cloud
ⓘ
surface form:
Google Cloud services
|
| programmingLanguage | various web technologies ⓘ |
| replaced | Google’s phrase-based statistical machine translation system ⓘ |
| supports |
document translation
ⓘ
handwriting input ⓘ image translation ⓘ multiple language pairs ⓘ offline translation ⓘ real-time camera translation ⓘ romanization of scripts ⓘ speech translation ⓘ text translation ⓘ transliteration ⓘ web page translation ⓘ |
| uses |
artificial neural networks
ⓘ
neural machine translation ⓘ statistical machine translation ⓘ |
| website | https://translate.google.com ⓘ |
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 Translate Description of subject: Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service by Google that instantly converts text, speech, images, and web pages between numerous languages.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Live Translate
this entity surface form:
Google Neural Machine Translation system
this entity surface form:
Live Translate
this entity surface form:
Live Translate
this entity surface form:
Google Translation API
this entity surface form:
Live Translate