Windows Movie Maker
E185558
Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Windows Movie Maker canonical | 2 |
| Windows Live Movie Maker | 1 |
| iMovie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1645986 — 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: Windows Movie Maker Context triple: [Windows ME, includedFeature, Windows Movie Maker]
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A.
Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Media Encoder is a video and audio transcoding application from Adobe that lets users export, compress, and convert media into various formats for playback, broadcast, and online distribution.
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B.
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional non-linear video editing software widely used in film, television, and online content production.
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C.
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
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D.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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E.
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements is a simplified, consumer-oriented version of Adobe’s photo editing software designed to offer powerful yet easy-to-use tools for organizing, editing, and sharing images.
- 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: Windows Movie Maker Target entity description: Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
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A.
Adobe Media Encoder
Adobe Media Encoder is a video and audio transcoding application from Adobe that lets users export, compress, and convert media into various formats for playback, broadcast, and online distribution.
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B.
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional non-linear video editing software widely used in film, television, and online content production.
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C.
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is Microsoft’s built-in multimedia application for playing audio, video, and streaming media on Windows operating systems.
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D.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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E.
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements is a simplified, consumer-oriented version of Adobe’s photo editing software designed to offer powerful yet easy-to-use tools for organizing, editing, and sharing images.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Windows software
ⓘ
video editing software ⓘ |
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| discontinued | true ⓘ |
| distributionMethod |
download via Windows Live Essentials
ⓘ
pre-installed on some Windows versions ⓘ |
| genre | non-linear video editor ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Windows 7
ⓘ
Windows ME ⓘ Windows Vista ⓘ Windows XP ⓘ |
| initialReleaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being bundled free with Windows
ⓘ
simplicity for beginner video editors ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
|
| partOf | Windows Essentials ⓘ |
| platform |
32-bit Windows
ⓘ
64-bit Windows ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs |
Windows Movie Maker
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Live Movie Maker
|
| status | no longer supported by Microsoft ⓘ |
| successor |
Clipchamp
ⓘ
Windows Photos video editor ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
audio track editing
ⓘ
automatic movie creation from templates ⓘ clip splitting ⓘ clip trimming ⓘ direct publishing to web services ⓘ drag-and-drop editing ⓘ export to video file ⓘ frame splitting ⓘ narration recording ⓘ preview playback ⓘ storyboard-based editing ⓘ timeline-based editing ⓘ title and credits creation ⓘ video effects ⓘ video transitions ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
AVI
ⓘ
MP3 ⓘ WAV ⓘ WMA ⓘ WMV ⓘ |
| targetAudience | home users ⓘ |
| useCase |
basic video editing
ⓘ
creating home movies ⓘ |
| userInterface | graphical user interface ⓘ |
| website | https://support.microsoft.com/windows-movie-maker (archived/support) ⓘ |
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: Windows Movie Maker Description of subject: Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Windows Live Movie Maker
this entity surface form:
iMovie