Lightroom catalog
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A Lightroom catalog is a database file that tracks your photos’ locations and stores all non-destructive edits, metadata, and organizational information for use within Adobe Lightroom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lightroom catalog canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7033288 — 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: Lightroom catalog Context triple: [Develop module, storesAdjustmentsIn, Lightroom catalog]
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A.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a professional photo editing and management software application widely used by photographers for organizing, enhancing, and sharing digital images.
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B.
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is a digital asset management application from Adobe that helps users organize, browse, and batch-process creative files across their projects.
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C.
Adobe Camera Raw
Adobe Camera Raw is a plugin and engine for processing and editing raw image files from digital cameras, widely used in Adobe’s photo-editing applications.
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D.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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E.
Shotwell
Shotwell is a lesser-known punk rock band associated with the Bay Area punk scene, notable for having zine writer and musician Aaron Cometbus as a member.
- 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: Lightroom catalog Target entity description: A Lightroom catalog is a database file that tracks your photos’ locations and stores all non-destructive edits, metadata, and organizational information for use within Adobe Lightroom.
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A.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a professional photo editing and management software application widely used by photographers for organizing, enhancing, and sharing digital images.
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B.
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is a digital asset management application from Adobe that helps users organize, browse, and batch-process creative files across their projects.
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C.
Adobe Camera Raw
Adobe Camera Raw is a plugin and engine for processing and editing raw image files from digital cameras, widely used in Adobe’s photo-editing applications.
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D.
Photolibrary
Photolibrary was a stock photography agency and image licensing company later incorporated into Getty Images’ global visual media portfolio.
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E.
Shotwell
Shotwell is a lesser-known punk rock band associated with the Bay Area punk scene, notable for having zine writer and musician Aaron Cometbus as a member.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Adobe Lightroom component
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digital asset management database ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Lightroom previews database
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Lightroom smart previews database ⓘ |
| benefit | centralized photo organization and editing data ⓘ |
| canBe |
multiple catalogs for different projects
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single catalog for all photos ⓘ |
| canContain |
references to DNG files
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references to JPEG files ⓘ references to PSD files ⓘ references to RAW files ⓘ references to TIFF files ⓘ references to video files ⓘ |
| databaseEngine | SQLite ⓘ |
| developedBy | Adobe Inc. ⓘ |
| doesNotStore |
full-size rendered images by default
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original image files ⓘ |
| enables |
backup of organizational data
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batch editing of images ⓘ export with applied adjustments ⓘ filtering by collections ⓘ search by EXIF data ⓘ search by flags and ratings ⓘ search by keywords ⓘ search by metadata ⓘ synchronization of edits across images ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .lrcat ⓘ |
| location | user-specified folder on local or external drive ⓘ |
| mayStore |
preview thumbnails
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smart previews ⓘ |
| requires | regular backup ⓘ |
| risk | corruption if storage fails ⓘ |
| stores |
collections
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color labels ⓘ develop history ⓘ face recognition data ⓘ flags ⓘ image metadata ⓘ keywords ⓘ non-destructive edit instructions ⓘ photo locations ⓘ ratings ⓘ stacking information ⓘ virtual copies ⓘ |
| supports |
multiple folders and drives
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non-destructive editing workflow ⓘ offline image management via previews ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Adobe Lightroom Classic
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linked to:
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (desktop) ⓘ
linked to:
Adobe Lightroom
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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: Lightroom catalog Description of subject: A Lightroom catalog is a database file that tracks your photos’ locations and stores all non-destructive edits, metadata, and organizational information for use within Adobe Lightroom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.