WebAssign
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WebAssign is an online homework and assessment platform widely used in college and high school math and science courses to deliver assignments, automatic grading, and feedback.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WebAssign canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7666782 — 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: WebAssign Context triple: [Cengage Learning, brand, WebAssign]
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A.
Gradescope
Gradescope is an online grading and assessment platform widely used in education to streamline assignment submission, grading, and feedback for instructors and students.
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B.
Canvas
Canvas is a jazz album by pianist and composer Robert Glasper that helped establish his distinctive blend of modern jazz, hip-hop, and soul influences.
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C.
Canvas
Canvas is a poetry collection by acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, reflecting his characteristic blend of introspection, history, and philosophical meditation.
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D.
Turnitin
Turnitin is a widely used academic integrity and plagiarism-detection platform that compares student work against vast databases of content to identify potential copying and improper citation.
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E.
Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn is a Canadian educational technology company best known for its Brightspace learning management system used by schools, universities, and businesses 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: WebAssign Target entity description: WebAssign is an online homework and assessment platform widely used in college and high school math and science courses to deliver assignments, automatic grading, and feedback.
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A.
Gradescope
Gradescope is an online grading and assessment platform widely used in education to streamline assignment submission, grading, and feedback for instructors and students.
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B.
Canvas
Canvas is a jazz album by pianist and composer Robert Glasper that helped establish his distinctive blend of modern jazz, hip-hop, and soul influences.
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C.
Canvas
Canvas is a poetry collection by acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, reflecting his characteristic blend of introspection, history, and philosophical meditation.
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D.
Turnitin
Turnitin is a widely used academic integrity and plagiarism-detection platform that compares student work against vast databases of content to identify potential copying and improper citation.
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E.
Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn is a Canadian educational technology company best known for its Brightspace learning management system used by schools, universities, and businesses worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational technology product
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learning management tool ⓘ online homework platform ⓘ |
| accessModel |
access codes for students
ⓘ
subscription-based access ⓘ |
| developedFor |
college courses
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high school courses ⓘ mathematics education ⓘ science education ⓘ |
| domain | STEM education ⓘ |
| feature |
accommodations for extra time
ⓘ
due dates and late policies ⓘ extensions for individual students ⓘ multiple attempts per question ⓘ penalties for incorrect attempts ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
algorithmic problem generation
ⓘ
answer hints and tutorials ⓘ automatic grading ⓘ gradebook management ⓘ homework submission tracking ⓘ immediate scoring ⓘ online assignment delivery ⓘ online quizzes and tests ⓘ providing feedback to students ⓘ question randomization ⓘ support for multiple question types ⓘ timed assessments ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
Blackboard
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackboard Learn
Brightspace ⓘ
linked to:
Desire2Learn
Canvas ⓘ
linked to:
Canvas LMS
Moodle ⓘ learning management systems ⓘ |
| provides |
course-level analytics
ⓘ
instructor customization of assignments ⓘ item analysis for questions ⓘ pre-built assignments ⓘ publisher-created content ⓘ question banks ⓘ student performance reports ⓘ |
| supportsQuestionType |
file-upload questions
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free-response questions ⓘ graphing questions ⓘ multiple-choice questions ⓘ numeric answer questions ⓘ symbolic math questions ⓘ |
| usedBy |
instructors
ⓘ
students ⓘ |
| usedIn |
college chemistry courses
ⓘ
college physics courses ⓘ college statistics courses ⓘ high schools in the United States ⓘ higher education institutions in the United States ⓘ introductory college calculus courses ⓘ |
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: WebAssign Description of subject: WebAssign is an online homework and assessment platform widely used in college and high school math and science courses to deliver assignments, automatic grading, and feedback.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.