Duplicate photos in Photos

Hi everyone,
I have recently been consolidating drives and found a bunch of folders with old pictures. I dragged them into the new Photos app and they listed some small number as new photos. At the top on the right there are three buttons, "Cancel", "Import Selected" and "Import All New Photos". I selected "Import All New Photos" and found that rather than say 64 photos being imported I had thousands of imports. Now there appear to be thousands of doubles and even some triples of photos in my library and no obvious way to filter them out.
Please help! Is there some way to remove all these duplicates that doesn't involve hunt and peck?
Also, what is the point of a button that says "Import All New Photos" if it is not going to honor the new vs existing photo filtering?
Thanks,
Dan

Did those files have the same names, size and creation/modification dates?
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