Why has iPhoto tripled my photo quantity?

one day I went to check out my photos and now there is 3 times each photo?
I cannot understand why or how this has happened?
Can anyone explain? And how do I get rid of the duplicates?

For anything other than a wild guess you need to provide more information
With no information except the number of photos tripling the best wild guess is that you imported an iPhoto library into another iPhoto library. NEVER do this
LN

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