Photos
E41445
Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Photos canonical | 7 |
| Photos app | 2 |
| Photos for iOS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T321750 — 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: Photos Context triple: [macOS, hasDefaultPhotoManager, Photos]
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A.
Google Photos
Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and management service that offers automatic backup, organization, sharing, and powerful search features using Google’s AI.
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B.
Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock is Adobe’s royalty-free stock content service offering millions of photos, illustrations, vectors, videos, and other creative assets for use in design and media projects.
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C.
PS
PS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN used to boost protons and other particles for physics experiments.
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D.
PS
PS is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the State of Palestine, used in international standards and country designation.
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E.
PS
PS is a major Portuguese political party traditionally associated with social democracy and center-left policies.
- 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: Photos Target entity description: Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
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A.
Google Photos
Google Photos is a cloud-based photo and video storage and management service that offers automatic backup, organization, sharing, and powerful search features using Google’s AI.
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B.
Adobe Stock
Adobe Stock is Adobe’s royalty-free stock content service offering millions of photos, illustrations, vectors, videos, and other creative assets for use in design and media projects.
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C.
PS
PS is the two-letter ISO 3166 country code assigned to the State of Palestine, used in international standards and country designation.
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D.
PS
PS is a major Portuguese political party traditionally associated with social democracy and center-left policies.
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E.
PS
PS is a high-energy circular particle accelerator at CERN used to boost protons and other particles for physics experiments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple software
ⓘ
image editing software ⓘ photo management application ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| distributionModel | pre-installed with macOS ⓘ |
| feature |
Albums organization
ⓘ
Memories automatic curation ⓘ Smart Albums ⓘ advanced adjustment tools ⓘ basic photo editing tools ⓘ crop and rotate ⓘ editing extensions support ⓘ face recognition ⓘ filters ⓘ geotagging ⓘ iCloud Photos integration ⓘ metadata viewing ⓘ non-destructive editing ⓘ object recognition ⓘ photo library management ⓘ printing and photo books (region-dependent) ⓘ red-eye correction ⓘ retouch tool ⓘ search by objects and scenes ⓘ search by people ⓘ search by places ⓘ shared albums ⓘ |
| includedWith | macOS Yosemite 10.10.3 ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Keynote
ⓘ
Mail ⓘ
surface form:
Mail on macOS
Messages on macOS ⓘ Numbers ⓘ Pages ⓘ System Photos Library ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software license ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| releaseType | built-in application ⓘ |
| replaced |
Aperture
ⓘ
iPhoto ⓘ |
| storesLibraryIn | Photos Library package ⓘ |
| supports |
Apple ProRAW
ⓘ
ProRes ⓘ
surface form:
Apple ProRes (video viewing and basic trimming)
HEIF ⓘ H.265 ⓘ
surface form:
HEVC
JPEG ⓘ PNG ⓘ JPEG ⓘ
surface form:
TIFF
|
| supportsMediaType |
Bursts
ⓘ
Live Photos ⓘ Panoramas ⓘ Portrait mode photos ⓘ RAW image files ⓘ photos ⓘ videos ⓘ |
| syncsAcross |
Apple TV
ⓘ
Mac ⓘ iPad ⓘ iPhone ⓘ iPod ⓘ
surface form:
iPod touch
|
| syncsVia |
iCloud
ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud Photos
|
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: Photos Description of subject: Photos is Apple's built-in photo management and editing application for macOS that organizes, syncs, and enhances users' image and video libraries.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Photos app
this entity surface form:
Photos for iOS
this entity surface form:
Photos app