Instructure
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Instructure is an educational technology company best known for developing the Canvas learning management system used by schools and universities worldwide.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Instructure canonical | 11 |
| Instructure Holdings, Inc. | 4 |
| Impact by Instructure | 1 |
| Instructure Learning Platform | 1 |
| Instructure Learning Platform ecosystem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480975 — 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: Instructure Context triple: [Canvas Network, operatedBy, Instructure]
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A.
Sakai
Sakai is a major Japanese city in Osaka Prefecture known historically as a prosperous port and merchant center and today as an important industrial and cultural hub.
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B.
edX
edX is a leading online learning platform founded by MIT and Harvard that offers university-level courses, professional certificates, and degree programs to learners worldwide.
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C.
Bootstrap Institute
Bootstrap Institute was a research and consulting organization founded by computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to advance his vision of augmenting human intellect through innovative information technologies and organizational practices.
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D.
Solusi University
Solusi University is a private Christian institution of higher education in Zimbabwe, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and located near Bulawayo.
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E.
OpenLearning
OpenLearning is an online education platform that hosts and delivers massive open online courses (MOOCs) from institutions and educators worldwide.
- 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: Instructure Target entity description: Instructure is an educational technology company best known for developing the Canvas learning management system used by schools and universities worldwide.
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A.
Sakai
Sakai is a major Japanese city in Osaka Prefecture known historically as a prosperous port and merchant center and today as an important industrial and cultural hub.
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B.
edX
edX is a leading online learning platform founded by MIT and Harvard that offers university-level courses, professional certificates, and degree programs to learners worldwide.
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C.
Bootstrap Institute
Bootstrap Institute was a research and consulting organization founded by computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart to advance his vision of augmenting human intellect through innovative information technologies and organizational practices.
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D.
Solusi University
Solusi University is a private Christian institution of higher education in Zimbabwe, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and located near Bulawayo.
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E.
OpenLearning
OpenLearning is an online education platform that hosts and delivers massive open online courses (MOOCs) from institutions and educators worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational technology company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Thoma Bravo ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| coreBusiness | cloud-based learning management systems ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| deploymentModel | software as a service ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
digital learning environments
ⓘ
student engagement ⓘ teaching and learning innovation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Brian Whitmer
ⓘ
Devlin Daley ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cloud-hosted infrastructure
ⓘ
integration with third-party educational tools ⓘ mobile access for learners and instructors ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Salt Lake City
|
| inception | 2008 ⓘ |
| industry |
educational technology
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Canvas
ⓘ
linked to:
Canvas LMS
learning management systems ⓘ |
| locationCity | Salt Lake City ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locationState | Utah ⓘ |
| offers |
analytics tools
ⓘ
assessment tools ⓘ course management tools ⓘ online learning platforms ⓘ |
| primaryBrand |
Canvas
ⓘ
linked to:
Canvas LMS
|
| product |
Bridge (formerly)
ⓘ
Canvas ⓘ
linked to:
Canvas LMS
Canvas Catalog ⓘ Canvas LMS ⓘ Canvas Studio ⓘ Impact by Instructure ⓘ
linked to:
Instructure
MasteryConnect ⓘ Portfolium ⓘ |
| relistedOnExchangeYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| serves |
K–12 schools
ⓘ
corporate learning customers ⓘ higher education institutions ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
educational institutions worldwide
ⓘ
schools ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | INST ⓘ |
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: Instructure Description of subject: Instructure is an educational technology company best known for developing the Canvas learning management system used by schools and universities worldwide.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Instructure
linked to: Instructure
linked to: Instructure
subject linked to:
Brian Whitmer
subject linked to:
Devlin Daley
linked to: Instructure
linked to: Instructure
subject linked to:
INST
linked to: Instructure