Deluxe Paint
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Deluxe Paint is a pioneering bitmap graphics editor best known for its extensive use in creating pixel art and game graphics on home computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deluxe Paint canonical | 2 |
| DPaint | 1 |
| Deluxe Paint II | 1 |
| Deluxe Paint III | 1 |
| Deluxe Paint IV | 1 |
| Deluxe Paint V | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1944664 — 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: Deluxe Paint Context triple: [AmigaOS, notableApplication, Deluxe Paint]
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A.
DeLuxe Color
DeLuxe Color is a color motion picture film process and brand used by Deluxe Laboratories as an alternative to Eastmancolor for producing color prints for movies.
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B.
MacPaint
MacPaint is a pioneering bitmap-based graphics editor for the original Macintosh that introduced many users to mouse-driven drawing and graphical user interfaces.
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C.
Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor included with Microsoft Windows that allows users to create, edit, and save basic digital drawings and images.
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D.
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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E.
Corel Centre
Corel Centre was the original name of the multi-purpose arena in Ottawa, Ontario, that serves as the home of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
- 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: Deluxe Paint Target entity description: Deluxe Paint is a pioneering bitmap graphics editor best known for its extensive use in creating pixel art and game graphics on home computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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A.
DeLuxe Color
DeLuxe Color is a color motion picture film process and brand used by Deluxe Laboratories as an alternative to Eastmancolor for producing color prints for movies.
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B.
MacPaint
MacPaint is a pioneering bitmap-based graphics editor for the original Macintosh that introduced many users to mouse-driven drawing and graphical user interfaces.
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C.
Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor included with Microsoft Windows that allows users to create, edit, and save basic digital drawings and images.
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D.
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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E.
Corel Centre
Corel Centre was the original name of the multi-purpose arena in Ottawa, Ontario, that serves as the home of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bitmap graphics editor
ⓘ
graphics software ⓘ raster graphics editor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Dan Silva ⓘ |
| developer | Electronic Arts ⓘ |
| distributionModel | commercial software ⓘ |
| feature |
animation support
ⓘ
brush manipulation ⓘ flood fill ⓘ mirror and flip drawing ⓘ onion-skinning for animation (in later versions) ⓘ palette editing ⓘ stencil and masking tools ⓘ |
| genre | graphics editor ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Deluxe Paint
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Deluxe Paint II
Deluxe Paint self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Deluxe Paint III
Deluxe Paint self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Deluxe Paint IV
Deluxe Paint self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Deluxe Paint V
|
| influenced |
game development workflows on home computers
ⓘ
later pixel art tools ⓘ |
| inputDevice |
graphics tablet (supported on some platforms)
ⓘ
mouse ⓘ |
| license | proprietary software ⓘ |
| notableFor |
game graphics production
ⓘ
pixel art creation ⓘ use in early 1990s home computer game development ⓘ use in late 1980s home computer game development ⓘ |
| notableUserCommunity |
Amiga game developers
ⓘ
PC game developers ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
AmigaOS
ⓘ
MS-DOS ⓘ |
| originalPlatform | Amiga ⓘ |
| platform |
Amiga
ⓘ
Apple IIgs ⓘ
surface form:
Apple IIGS
Atari ST ⓘ Commodore 64 ⓘ MS-DOS ⓘ |
| publisher | Electronic Arts ⓘ |
| shortName |
Deluxe Paint
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
DPaint
|
| supportsColorDepth |
EHB (Extra Half-Brite) modes on Amiga
ⓘ
HAM (Hold-And-Modify) modes on Amiga ⓘ indexed color ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPeakUse |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| usedFor |
2D game sprite creation
ⓘ
background graphics for games ⓘ cutscene artwork for games ⓘ |
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: Deluxe Paint Description of subject: Deluxe Paint is a pioneering bitmap graphics editor best known for its extensive use in creating pixel art and game graphics on home computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
DPaint
this entity surface form:
Deluxe Paint II
this entity surface form:
Deluxe Paint III
this entity surface form:
Deluxe Paint IV
this entity surface form:
Deluxe Paint V