Heroku

E255524

Cloud computing platform Platform as a service Web hosting service

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Heroku canonical	2
Heroku (past)	1
Heroku Platform API	1
Laravel Forge	1
https://www.heroku.com/	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2313772 — 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: Heroku
Context triple: [Yukihiro Matsumoto, employer, Heroku]

A. Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
B. Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
C. New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
D. cloud.gov platform
cloud.gov platform is a U.S. government-managed cloud hosting and deployment service designed to help federal agencies build, run, and maintain compliant web applications and digital services.
E. Automattic
Automattic is a web development and publishing company best known for owning and operating WordPress.com and several other major online platforms and tools.
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: Heroku
Target entity description: Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure.

A. Loudcloud
Loudcloud was a pioneering early-2000s cloud and managed hosting company co-founded by Marc Andreessen that later evolved into the software firm Opsware.
B. Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and security company best known for its global content delivery network (CDN), DDoS protection, and DNS services that help improve the performance and security of websites and internet applications.
C. New Relic
New Relic is a software analytics and application performance monitoring company that provides tools for tracking and optimizing the performance of web and mobile applications.
D. cloud.gov platform
cloud.gov platform is a U.S. government-managed cloud hosting and deployment service designed to help federal agencies build, run, and maintain compliant web applications and digital services.
E. Automattic
Automattic is a web development and publishing company best known for owning and operating WordPress.com and several other major online platforms and tools.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cloud computing platform ⓘ Platform as a service ⓘ Web hosting service ⓘ
acquiredBy	Salesforce ⓘ
acquisitionCost	212000000 USD ⓘ
coreFeature	Buildpack system ⓘ Dyno-based execution environment ⓘ Environment configuration via config vars ⓘ Git-based deployment ⓘ Horizontal scaling of applications ⓘ Integrated logging ⓘ Managed runtime environments ⓘ Vertical scaling of applications ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
databaseProduct	PostgreSQL ⓘ surface form: Heroku Postgres Redis ⓘ surface form: Heroku Redis
dateOfAcquisition	2010 ⓘ
deploymentMethod	Git push ⓘ GitHub integration ⓘ Heroku CLI ⓘ
foundedBy	Adam Wiggins ⓘ James Lindenbaum ⓘ Orion Henry ⓘ
hasAPI	Heroku self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Heroku Platform API
hasCommandLineTool	Heroku CLI ⓘ
headquartersLocation	San Francisco, California, United States of America ⓘ surface form: San Francisco, California, United States
inception	2007 ⓘ
industry	Cloud computing ⓘ Platform as a service ⓘ
notableFor	Abstracting server and infrastructure management ⓘ Early support for Ruby on Rails hosting ⓘ
offersService	Add-ons marketplace ⓘ Application hosting ⓘ Application logging ⓘ Application monitoring ⓘ Continuous deployment ⓘ Managed databases ⓘ
ownedBy	Salesforce ⓘ
parentOrganization	Salesforce ⓘ
supportsApplicationType	APIs ⓘ Background workers ⓘ Web applications ⓘ
supportsDeploymentModel	Multi-tenant cloud ⓘ
supportsProgrammingLanguage	.NET Framework ⓘ surface form: .NET Clojure ⓘ Go ⓘ Java ⓘ Node.js ⓘ PHP ⓘ Python ⓘ Ruby ⓘ Scala ⓘ
targetUser	Software developers ⓘ Startups ⓘ Web application developers ⓘ
usesConcept	Buildpack ⓘ Dyno ⓘ Slug ⓘ
website	Heroku self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: https://www.heroku.com/

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yukihiro Matsumoto → employer → Heroku ⓘ

Laravel → ecosystemIncludes → Heroku ⓘ

this entity surface form: Laravel Forge

Tod Nielsen → employer → Heroku ⓘ

Matz → employer → Heroku ⓘ

subject surface form: Yukihiro Matsumoto

this entity surface form: Heroku (past)

Heroku → website → Heroku self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: https://www.heroku.com/

Heroku → hasAPI → Heroku self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Heroku Platform API

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Referenced by (6)

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