Technical solutions for video event recognition relate to the fields of knowledge graphs, deep learning and computer vision. A video event graph is constructed, and each event in the video event graph includes: M argument roles of the event and respective arguments of the argument roles, with M being a positive integer greater than one. For a to-be-recognized video, respective arguments of the M argument roles of a to-be-recognized event corresponding to the video are acquired. According to the arguments acquired, an event is selected from the video event graph as a recognized event corresponding to the video.