ground truth

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Noun

ground truth (countable and uncountable, plural ground truths)

1. Information acquired by direct observation rather than by inference.

Derived terms

• ground truthing

Translations

information acquired by direct observation

Chinese: Mandarin: 地面實況 / 地面实况 (dìmiàn shíkuàng) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: havainnot pl French: vérité terrain (fr) f German: Vor-Ort-Messwert m, Feldvergleich m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Polish: informacja zdobyta poprzez bezpośrednią obserwację f Russian: фундаментальная истина f (fundamentalʹnaja istina), непреложная истина f (nepreložnaja istina)

Verb

ground truth (third-person singular simple present ground truths, present participle ground truthing, simple past and past participle ground truthed)

1. To gather information by direct observation rather than inference.

See also

• field-test
• on the ground
• facts on the ground