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Re:Google Improves Image Search with Freebase Identifiers by jcr on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:51PM (#11254885)
In the comments on the submitted story, there's an interesting mention of using "sameAs" links. I don't know much about them but there's some more information on them in the links below.

http://sameas.org/about.php

https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas

https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/sameAs

http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/DBPedia

Re:Google Improves Image Search with Freebase Identifiers by spencermountain on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:08PM (#11255739)
It's cute to seeing freebase ids surfaced in all sorts of projects. It's incredible how powerful and useful that project is.

Interestingly, those mids are hashes of an earlier id system, which itself sourced from (i think,) wikipedia/en titles. There's kind of an accidental archaeology happening, from the anonymous hard-work of many smart people.

Re:Google Improves Image Search with Freebase Identifiers by thinkcontext on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:51PM (#11255981)
AFAIK they don't expose Freebase ids as part of image search. You can get them through their Cloud Vision API

https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/concepts#label_detectio...