Live Photos
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Live Photos is an Apple feature that captures a short moving image with sound around the moment a photo is taken, creating a brief, animated clip instead of a static picture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Live Photo | 1 |
| Live Photos canonical | 1 |
| Motion Photos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1936045 — 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: Live Photos Context triple: [Photos, supportsMediaType, Live Photos]
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A.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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B.
Instagram Reels
Instagram Reels is a short-form video feature within Instagram that lets users create, edit, and share brief, often music-backed clips for discovery and entertainment.
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C.
Photos
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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D.
FaceTime
FaceTime is Apple’s proprietary video and audio calling service that enables real-time communication across its devices and platforms.
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E.
Snap Camera
Snap Camera is a desktop application by Snap Inc. that lets users apply Snapchat-style augmented reality lenses and filters to their webcam video for use in video calls and streaming.
- 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: Live Photos Target entity description: Live Photos is an Apple feature that captures a short moving image with sound around the moment a photo is taken, creating a brief, animated clip instead of a static picture.
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A.
Periscope
Periscope was a live video streaming mobile app that allowed users to broadcast and watch real-time video from around the world.
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B.
Instagram Reels
Instagram Reels is a short-form video feature within Instagram that lets users create, edit, and share brief, often music-backed clips for discovery and entertainment.
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C.
Photos
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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D.
FaceTime
FaceTime is Apple’s proprietary video and audio calling service that enables real-time communication across its devices and platforms.
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E.
Snap Camera
Snap Camera is a desktop application by Snap Inc. that lets users apply Snapchat-style augmented reality lenses and filters to their webcam video for use in video calls and streaming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Apple software feature
ⓘ
photography feature ⓘ |
| announcedAtEvent | Apple September 2015 event ⓘ |
| availableOnDeviceType |
Mac
ⓘ
iPad ⓘ iPhone ⓘ iPod ⓘ
surface form:
iPod touch
|
| canBeSharedAs |
Live Photos
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Live Photo
animated GIF (via conversion) ⓘ still image ⓘ video file ⓘ |
| captures |
audio
ⓘ
short video clip ⓘ still photo ⓘ |
| competesWith |
HTC Zoe
ⓘ
Motion Photos ⓘ |
| defaultFileFormatStill |
HEIF
ⓘ
JPEG ⓘ |
| defaultFileFormatVideo | MOV ⓘ |
| defaultState | enabled on supported iPhones at first use ⓘ |
| developer | Apple Inc. ⓘ |
| durationSeconds | 3 ⓘ |
| hasEditingFeature |
apply filters
ⓘ
change key photo ⓘ mute audio ⓘ trim motion ⓘ |
| introducedInOSVersion |
iOS
ⓘ
surface form:
iOS 9
|
| introducedInProduct | iPhone 6s ⓘ |
| marketingTaglineElement | “The moments just before and after your picture” ⓘ |
| platform |
iOS
ⓘ
iPadOS ⓘ macOS ⓘ |
| playbackTrigger | press and hold on photo ⓘ |
| postShutterCaptureSeconds | 1.5 ⓘ |
| preShutterCaptureSeconds | 1.5 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| requires | 3D Touch or long-press gesture to play ⓘ |
| storesComponents |
high-resolution still frame
ⓘ
lower-resolution video segment ⓘ |
| supportsEffect |
Bounce
ⓘ
Long Exposure ⓘ Loop ⓘ |
| synchronizesVia |
iCloud
ⓘ
surface form:
iCloud Photos
|
| toggleInCameraUI | Live Photo button ⓘ |
| usesCameraApp | Apple Camera ⓘ |
| viewableInApp |
Facebook (via upload support)
ⓘ
Instagram (via upload support) ⓘ Mail ⓘ Messages ⓘ Photos ⓘ
surface form:
Photos for iOS
Apple Photos ⓘ
surface form:
Photos for macOS
|
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: Live Photos Description of subject: Live Photos is an Apple feature that captures a short moving image with sound around the moment a photo is taken, creating a brief, animated clip instead of a static picture.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Google Camera
this entity surface form:
Motion Photos
this entity surface form:
Live Photo