FreeHand
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FreeHand is a vector-based illustration and page layout software application that was widely used for graphic design and desktop publishing before being discontinued.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| FreeHand canonical | 4 |
| FreeHand MX | 2 |
| FreeHand 10 | 1 |
| FreeHand MX file format | 1 |
| FreeHand file format | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1429788 — 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: FreeHand Context triple: [Macromedia, knownFor, FreeHand]
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A.
LisaDraw
LisaDraw was a pioneering graphical drawing and diagramming application for the Apple Lisa computer, notable for its early use of a mouse-driven, WYSIWYG interface.
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B.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe Fresco is a digital painting and drawing app by Adobe that simulates natural media brushes and is designed for artists and illustrators working on touch and stylus devices.
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C.
Brushstroke
Brushstroke is a 1965 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that magnifies a single painterly brushstroke into a bold, comic-strip-style image commenting on art and representation.
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D.
The Graphic
The Graphic was a British illustrated weekly newspaper of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for its high-quality artwork and influential social commentary.
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E.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a professional vector graphics editing and design software widely used for creating logos, illustrations, and scalable artwork.
- 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: FreeHand Target entity description: FreeHand is a vector-based illustration and page layout software application that was widely used for graphic design and desktop publishing before being discontinued.
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A.
LisaDraw
LisaDraw was a pioneering graphical drawing and diagramming application for the Apple Lisa computer, notable for its early use of a mouse-driven, WYSIWYG interface.
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B.
Adobe Fresco
Adobe Fresco is a digital painting and drawing app by Adobe that simulates natural media brushes and is designed for artists and illustrators working on touch and stylus devices.
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C.
Brushstroke
Brushstroke is a 1965 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that magnifies a single painterly brushstroke into a bold, comic-strip-style image commenting on art and representation.
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D.
The Graphic
The Graphic was a British illustrated weekly newspaper of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for its high-quality artwork and influential social commentary.
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E.
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a professional vector graphics editing and design software widely used for creating logos, illustrations, and scalable artwork.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
desktop publishing software
ⓘ
page layout software ⓘ proprietary software ⓘ vector graphics editor ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| competitor |
Adobe Illustrator
ⓘ
Adobe PageMaker ⓘ CorelDRAW ⓘ QuarkXPress ⓘ |
| developer |
Adobe Systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Inc.
Macromedia ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| feature |
Bezier curve editing
ⓘ
CMYK support ⓘ color management ⓘ layers ⓘ master pages ⓘ multi-page documents ⓘ spot color support ⓘ text flow between frames ⓘ typography tools ⓘ vector drawing tools ⓘ |
| fileFormat |
FH
ⓘ
FH10 ⓘ FH11 ⓘ FH8 ⓘ FH9 ⓘ |
| genre | graphics software ⓘ |
| license | proprietary license ⓘ |
| notableVersion |
FreeHand 10
ⓘ
linked to:
FreeHand
FreeHand MX ⓘ
linked to:
FreeHand
|
| operatingSystem |
Mac OS
ⓘ
linked to:
macOS
Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
|
| originalDeveloper | Altsys ⓘ |
| platform |
Macintosh
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple Macintosh computers
Windows PC ⓘ |
| releaseStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| supports |
EPS export
ⓘ
PDF export ⓘ PostScript output ⓘ page layout ⓘ vector graphics ⓘ |
| targetUser |
desktop publishing professionals
ⓘ
graphic designers ⓘ illustrators ⓘ |
| usedFor |
desktop publishing
ⓘ
graphic design ⓘ illustration ⓘ |
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: FreeHand Description of subject: FreeHand is a vector-based illustration and page layout software application that was widely used for graphic design and desktop publishing before being discontinued.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: FreeHand
linked to: FreeHand
linked to: FreeHand