Coursera
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Coursera is a major online learning platform that partners with universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses, professional certificates, and degree programs across a wide range of subjects.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T101708 — 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: Coursera Context triple: [Massive Open Online Courses, offeredOnPlatform, Coursera]
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A.
Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are large-scale, internet-based classes that provide open access to university-level or professional education for learners worldwide, often at low or no cost.
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B.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials 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.
Open Data Institute
The Open Data Institute is a UK-based non-profit organization that advocates for and supports the use of open data to drive innovation, improve governance, and benefit society.
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E.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
- 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: Coursera Target entity description: Coursera is a major online learning platform that partners with universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses, professional certificates, and degree programs across a wide range of subjects.
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A.
Massive Open Online Courses
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are large-scale, internet-based classes that provide open access to university-level or professional education for learners worldwide, often at low or no cost.
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B.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free, web-based publication of virtually all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course content, offering open access to lecture notes, exams, and other educational materials 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.
Open Data Institute
The Open Data Institute is a UK-based non-profit organization that advocates for and supports the use of open data to drive innovation, improve governance, and benefit society.
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E.
OpenCourseWare movement
The OpenCourseWare movement is a global initiative in which universities and educators freely share course materials and educational resources online to promote open access to knowledge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
MOOC provider
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educational technology company ⓘ online learning platform ⓘ |
| businessModel |
freemium
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subscription ⓘ |
| CEO | Jeff Maggioncalda ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| foundedAs | for-profit company ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Andrew Ng
ⓘ
Daphne Koller ⓘ |
| hasCustomerType |
businesses
ⓘ
governments ⓘ individual learners ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
course completion certificates
ⓘ
discussion forums ⓘ graded programming assignments ⓘ peer-graded assignments ⓘ quizzes ⓘ video lectures ⓘ |
| hasPartner |
Amazon Web Services
ⓘ
Duke University ⓘ Google ⓘ IBM ⓘ Imperial College London ⓘ Meta ⓘ National Research University Higher School of Economics ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ University of Michigan ⓘ University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Coursera Plus
ⓘ
MasterTrack certificate ⓘ Online Degree ⓘ Professional Certificate ⓘ Specialization ⓘ |
| hasUserInterface |
mobile application
ⓘ
website ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Mountain View
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surface form:
Mountain View, California
|
| inception | 2012 ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Chinese ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ Russian ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| offers |
guided projects
ⓘ
massive open online courses ⓘ online courses ⓘ online degree programs ⓘ professional certificates ⓘ specializations ⓘ |
| partnersWith |
colleges
ⓘ
companies ⓘ government organizations ⓘ nonprofit organizations ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| provides |
enterprise learning solutions
ⓘ
online learning platform for institutions ⓘ |
| stockTicker | COUR ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
arts and humanities
ⓘ
business ⓘ computer science ⓘ data science ⓘ health ⓘ personal development ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
lifelong learners
ⓘ
university students ⓘ working professionals ⓘ |
| wentPublicOn | 2021 ⓘ |
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: Coursera Description of subject: Coursera is a major online learning platform that partners with universities and organizations worldwide to offer courses, professional certificates, and degree programs across a wide range of subjects.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stanford Machine Learning online course
this entity surface form:
Coursera Machine Learning course
this entity surface form:
Coursera Specializations
this entity surface form:
Coursera, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Coursera, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Coursera online learning platform
this entity surface form:
Coursera Neural Networks for Machine Learning lecture