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basketball

team sport played on a court with baskets on either end
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Summary

basketball is a type of sport[1]. basketball ranks in the top 0.92% of type of sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38,885 views/month, #4 of 435).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: James Naismith[3]
  • Instance of: Olympic sport[4], hobby[5]
  • Subclass of: ball game[6], team sport[7], throwing game[8], game of skill[9]
  • Commons category: Basketball[10]
  • Unicode character: 🏀[11]
  • Country of origin: United States[12]
  • Inception: December 1891[13]
  • Time of discovery or invention: December 1891[14]
  • Authority: International Basketball Federation[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Basketball[16]
  • Commons gallery: Basketball[17]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Basketball[18]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: sport=basketball[19]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Basketball[21]
  • Nickname: bàsquet[22]
  • Short name: basket[23]
  • Maximum number of players: 5[24]
  • Different from: netball[25]
  • Duration: 56[26], 40[27], 32[28], 12[29]
  • Competition class: men's basketball[30], women's basketball[31]
  • Uses: basketball[32], basketball court[33], backboard[34], basket[35]
  • Hashtag: basketball[36]
  • Exact match: http://imagenet.stanford.edu/synset?wnid=n02802426[37]
  • Practiced by: basketball player[38], basketball coach[39], basketball official[40], basketball people[41], basketball agent[42]

Why It Matters

basketball has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] basketball is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]

Related Entities

2 Chainz Aaron Gordon Air Jordan Aleksandar Đorđević Alessandro Costacurta Álex Abrines Alex Len Allen Iverson Alonzo Mourning Amar'e Stoudemire Andrea Bargnani Andre Iguodala Andrei Kirilenko Andrew Bogut Andrew Bynum Andrew Wiggins Andris Biedriņš Anthony Bennett Anthony Davis Antonio McDyess Arne Duncan Arvydas Sabonis Bam Adebayo Baron Davis Becky Hammon Ben Gordon Ben Simmons Ben Wallace Bettino Craxi Bill Bradley

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [43] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [44] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nhk one news topic id → E0000000256
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  2. 4w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → krepsinis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: krepsinis"
  3. 6w ago · Rescq · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Basketball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Süddeutsche zeitung topic id: Basketball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213750754|Basketball (#213750754)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeuts"
  4. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → 150 BC
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  5. 9w ago · LadyData · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword → basketball, basketball-sport, playing-basketball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb keyword: playing-basketball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193892388|playing basketball (#193892388)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|T"
  6. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Basketball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Basketball, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  7. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1wI5Ud, 2n0TIr
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 14w ago · Sabelöga · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikisimpsons article id → 21087
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wikisimpsons article id: 21087, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296172822|Basketball (#296172822)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8109|Wikisimpsons]] #mi"
  9. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → basketball
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: basketball, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911329|basketball (#289911329)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  10. 17w ago · Tillnius · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svt play id → kategori/basket
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Svt play id: kategori/basket"
  11. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002987-basketbal
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002987-basketbal, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  12. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 8781, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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