Build a School in the Cloud
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"Build a School in the Cloud" is a TED Talk by educational researcher Sugata Mitra in which he proposes self-organized learning environments and internet-based exploration as a radical rethinking of traditional schooling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Build a School in the Cloud canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070966 — 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)
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Target entity: Build a School in the Cloud Context triple: [Sugata Mitra, TEDTalk, Build a School in the Cloud]
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A.
Cloud Campus
Cloud Campus is Deakin University’s fully online campus, providing digital access to courses and student services for remote and flexible study.
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B.
Khan Lab School
Khan Lab School is an experimental independent school in California founded by Salman Khan that applies and extends the educational philosophies and practices behind Khan Academy in a physical classroom setting.
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C.
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program that provides students and educators with free or discounted access to professional developer tools, software, and learning resources for academic use.
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D.
Build to Scale program
The Build to Scale program is a U.S. federal initiative that provides funding and support to accelerate technology entrepreneurship and foster innovation-driven economic growth in regional ecosystems.
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E.
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined is a book by educator and entrepreneur Sal Khan that outlines his vision for transforming traditional schooling through mastery-based, technology-supported, globally accessible education.
- 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: Build a School in the Cloud Target entity description: "Build a School in the Cloud" is a TED Talk by educational researcher Sugata Mitra in which he proposes self-organized learning environments and internet-based exploration as a radical rethinking of traditional schooling.
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A.
Cloud Campus
Cloud Campus is Deakin University’s fully online campus, providing digital access to courses and student services for remote and flexible study.
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B.
Khan Lab School
Khan Lab School is an experimental independent school in California founded by Salman Khan that applies and extends the educational philosophies and practices behind Khan Academy in a physical classroom setting.
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C.
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a Microsoft program that provides students and educators with free or discounted access to professional developer tools, software, and learning resources for academic use.
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D.
Build to Scale program
The Build to Scale program is a U.S. federal initiative that provides funding and support to accelerate technology entrepreneurship and foster innovation-driven economic growth in regional ecosystems.
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E.
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined is a book by educator and entrepreneur Sal Khan that outlines his vision for transforming traditional schooling through mastery-based, technology-supported, globally accessible education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
TED Talk
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educational talk ⓘ |
| advocates |
collaborative learning
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student autonomy in learning ⓘ use of the internet as a primary learning resource ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
democratize access to quality education
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enable children to teach themselves ⓘ rethink traditional schooling ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Sugata Mitra ⓘ |
| author | Sugata Mitra ⓘ |
| criticizes | traditional schooling models ⓘ |
| distributedBy | TED.com ⓘ |
| educationalDiscipline |
education
ⓘ
educational technology ⓘ learning sciences ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
big questions as prompts for learning
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curiosity-driven learning ⓘ peer collaboration among students ⓘ |
| features |
discussion of remote mentoring
ⓘ
examples of children learning using computers ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
children in under-resourced areas
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learning without direct teacher instruction ⓘ |
| genre | educational technology talk ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
TED Talk transcript
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online streaming video ⓘ |
| inspired |
School in the Cloud project
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linked to:
School in the Cloud
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
child-led learning
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education innovation ⓘ future of education ⓘ internet-based learning ⓘ self-organized learning environments ⓘ |
| medium | video ⓘ |
| proposes |
internet-based exploration for children
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minimally invasive education ⓘ self-organized learning environments ⓘ |
| publisher |
TED
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linked to:
TED conferences
|
| relatedConcept |
Hole in the Wall experiment
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Self-Organized Learning Environment ⓘ
linked to:
SOLE (Self-Organized Learning Environments)
cloud-based education ⓘ |
| speaker | Sugata Mitra ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
education policymakers
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educators ⓘ general public interested in education ⓘ |
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: Build a School in the Cloud Description of subject: "Build a School in the Cloud" is a TED Talk by educational researcher Sugata Mitra in which he proposes self-organized learning environments and internet-based exploration as a radical rethinking of traditional schooling.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.