diff --git a/src/cache/inmemory/canon.ts b/src/cache/inmemory/object-canon.ts
similarity index 97%
rename from src/cache/inmemory/canon.ts
rename to src/cache/inmemory/object-canon.ts
index 7572c4fd4fa..2dc82210a7a 100644
--- a/src/cache/inmemory/canon.ts
+++ b/src/cache/inmemory/object-canon.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Pass<T> {
 // which usually means the objects are structurally equivalent (deeply
 // equal), but don't necessarily use the same memory.
 //
-// Like a literary or musical canon, this Canon class represents a
+// Like a literary or musical canon, this ObjectCanon class represents a
 // collection of unique canonical items (JavaScript objects), with the
 // important property that canon.admit(a) === canon.admit(b) if a and b
 // are deeply equal to each other. In terms of the definition above, the
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ class Pass<T> {
 // In the future, we may consider adding additional cases to the switch
 // statement to handle other common object types, such as "[object Date]"
 // objects, as needed.
-export class Canon {
-  // Set of all canonical objects this Canon has admitted, allowing
+export class ObjectCanon {
+  // Set of all canonical objects this ObjectCanon has admitted, allowing
   // canon.admit to return previously-canonicalized objects immediately.
   private known = new (canUseWeakMap ? WeakSet : Set)<object>();
 
diff --git a/src/cache/inmemory/readFromStore.ts b/src/cache/inmemory/readFromStore.ts
index 5414ce26de0..7d487bb890c 100644
--- a/src/cache/inmemory/readFromStore.ts
+++ b/src/cache/inmemory/readFromStore.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import { getTypenameFromStoreObject } from './helpers';
 import { Policies } from './policies';
 import { InMemoryCache } from './inMemoryCache';
 import { MissingFieldError } from '../core/types/common';
-import { Canon } from './canon';
+import { ObjectCanon } from './object-canon';
 
 export type VariableMap = { [name: string]: any };
 
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ export class StoreReader {
     return finalResult;
   }
 
-  private canon = new Canon;
+  private canon = new ObjectCanon;
 
   private knownResults = new WeakMap<Record<string, any>, SelectionSetNode>();