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Backstaff

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Backstaff

Summary

Backstaff ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Backstaff is credited with the discovery of John Davis[2].
  • Backstaff's image is recorded as Davis quadrant-MnM 11 NA 97-IMG 5987-black.jpg[3].
  • Backstaff's subclass of is recorded as navigational instrument[4].
  • Backstaff's has use is recorded as celestial navigation[5].
  • Backstaff's start time is recorded as +1594-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • Backstaff's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03vs2s[7].
  • Backstaff's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/backstaff[8].
  • Backstaff's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 148827160[9].
  • Backstaff's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 10103[10].
  • Backstaff's Lex ID is recorded as Daviskvadrant[11].

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Works and Contributions

Backstaff is credited with the discovery of John Davis[2].

Why It Matters

Backstaff ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month).[1] Backstaff has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Backstaff is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

John Davis

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Backstaff. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/backstaff
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