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Basilideans

Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century
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Basilideans

Summary

Basilideans is a sect[1]. Basilideans draws 143 Wikipedia views per month (sect category, ranking #20 of 54).[2]

Key Facts

  • Basilideans's instance of is recorded as sect[3].
  • Basilideans's founder is recorded as Basilides[4].
  • Basilideans's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05d_4d[5].
  • Basilideans's Quora topic ID is recorded as Basilideans[6].
  • Basilideans's Polignosi ID is recorded as 1830[7].

Why It Matters

Basilideans draws 143 Wikipedia views per month (sect category, ranking #20 of 54).[2] Basilideans has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] Basilideans is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

Basilides

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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