ballista

ancient missile weapon
Product weapon_type Q219433
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ballista

Summary

ballista is a weapon type[1]. ballista ranks in the top 7% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • ballista's image is recorded as Ballista.jpg[3].
  • ballista's instance of is recorded as weapon type[4].
  • ballista's GND ID is recorded as 7740347-2[5].
  • ballista's subclass of is recorded as torsion siege engine[6].
  • ballista's subclass of is recorded as neuroballistic weapon[7].
  • ballista's Commons category is recorded as Ballista[8].
  • ballista's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bwkx[9].
  • ballista's Commons gallery is recorded as Balistes[10].
  • ballista's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300036934[11].
  • ballista's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.441[12].
  • ballista's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0082874[13].
  • ballista's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[14].
  • ballista's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • ballista's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • ballista's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[17].
  • ballista's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[18].
  • ballista's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/ballista[19].
  • ballista's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1847767[20].
  • ballista's Quora topic ID is recorded as Ballista[21].
  • ballista's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtjeRR8c9Ec3[22].
  • ballista's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as ballist[23].
  • ballista's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • ballista's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as balliste[25].
  • ballista's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 16515432[26].
  • ballista's De Agostini ID is recorded as balista[27].

Why It Matters

ballista ranks in the top 7% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (889 views/month).[2] ballista has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] ballista is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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