4-6-2

wheel arrangement of a locomotive with 4 leading wheels, 6 driving wheels and 2 trailing wheels
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4-6-2
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4-6-2

Summary

4-6-2 is a wheel arrangement[1]. 4-6-2 ranks in the top 3% of wheel_arrangement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (358 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 4-6-2's image is recorded as WheelArrangement 4-6-2.svg[3].
  • 4-6-2's instance of is recorded as wheel arrangement[4].
  • 4-6-2's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh89006292[5].
  • 4-6-2's subclass of is recorded as locomotive[6].
  • 4-6-2's Commons category is recorded as 4-6-2 locomotives[7].
  • 4-6-2's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025w55[8].
  • 4-6-2's topic's main category is recorded as Category:4-6-2 locomotives[9].
  • 4-6-2's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Pacific'}[10].
  • 4-6-2's has part is recorded as driving wheel[11].
  • 4-6-2's has part is recorded as trailing wheel[12].
  • 4-6-2's has part is recorded as leading wheel[13].
  • 4-6-2's schematic is recorded as WheelArrangement 4-6-2.svg[14].
  • 4-6-2's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007536830805171[15].

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Designation and Status

4-6-2's instance of is recorded as wheel arrangement[4].

Cultural Significance

Things named for 4-6-2 include Pacific 231[16], a musical work/composition[17], founded in 1923[18].

Why It Matters

4-6-2 ranks in the top 3% of wheel_arrangement entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (358 views/month).[2] 4-6-2 has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] 4-6-2 is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for 4-6-2 include Pacific 231[16], a musical work/composition[17], founded in 1923[18].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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