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Billiken

charm doll and athletic mascot
Person Deity Q862871

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
deity, mascot[3]
Different from
Billiken, ビリケン (曖昧さ回避)[4][5]
Discoverer or inventor
Florence Pretz[2]
Social media followers
+2061[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Billiken en Billikin ja Billiken ja ビリケン ja ビリケン人形 ko 빌리켄 ru Пеликен zh 比利肯
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Пеликен.JPG ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
billiken-san
Freebase ID
/m/060vb8
HAND ID
973A-9420-2A08-9A82-3D1D
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
28771799
X (Twitter) username
BILLIKENsan_jp

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
deity, mascot
Different from 1
Billiken
Named after 1
Billiken
← Different from 1
Billiken
← Mascot 1
Tsūtenkaku
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Summary

Billiken is a deity[1].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Billiken include they[7], a youth media[8], in Argentina[9], founded in 1919[10].

Why It Matters

Entities named for them include they[7], a youth media[8], in Argentina[9], founded in 1919[10].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . The Topeka Journal. newspaperarchive.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [8] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 13w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Social media followers → 2,061
    HAND ID → 973A-9420-2A08-9A82-3D1D
    Discoverer or inventor → Florence Pretz
    Different from → Billiken, ビリケン (曖昧さ回避)
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: HAND ID: 973A-9420-2A08-9A82-3D1D, batch #265669"
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