# Indexical AI
**Entity class:** Interpretive concept
**Maturity:** Developing
## Definition
**Indexical AI** names computational systems that turn traces—identifiers, locations, transactions, encounters, and associations—into pointers toward entities and inferred relations. The concept emphasizes that a datum acquires operational meaning by indicating who or what it is connected to within a larger graph.
## Relationships
- **built on:** [[wiki/Computational Addressability|Computational Addressability]].
- **methods:** [[wiki/Entity Resolution|Entity Resolution]], [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]], and [[wiki/Graph Analytics|Graph Analytics]].
- **case:** [[wiki/ICEPIC|ICEPIC]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [[research/Immigration and Customs Enforcement Pattern Analysis and Information Collection (ICEPIC)|ICEPIC research dossier]]