blacksmith

person who creates wrought iron or steel products by forging, hammering, bending, and cutting
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Summary

blacksmith is a skilled trade[1]. blacksmith draws 5,181 Wikipedia views per month (skilled trade category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: historical profession[3], occupation[4]
  • Location: smithy[5]
  • Subclass of: metalsmith[6], metalworker[7]
  • Commons category: Blacksmiths[8]
  • Field of this occupation: blacksmithing[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Blacksmiths[10]
  • Commons gallery: Blacksmith[11]
  • Product or material produced: ironwork[12]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: craft=blacksmith[13]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[15]
  • Different from: Kowal[16], ironworker[17]
  • Uses: anvil[18], blacksmith's hammer[19], bellows[20], forge[21], blacksmith's tongs[22], pincers[23], fire[24]
  • Female form of label: forgeronne[25], حدّادة[26], forĝistino[27], נפחית[28], kovářka[29], ferrera[30], Schmie­din[31], fabbra[32], herrera[33], kovačica[34], Schmattesch[35], ferreira[36]
  • Male form of label: حدّاد[37], Schmied[38], forgeron[39], kovač[40], Schmadd[41], ferreiro[42]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Craft[43], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[44], NADD occupations[45]

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Influence

Things named for blacksmith include Novokuznetsk[46], a city or town[47], in Russia[48], founded in 1618[49]; Smith[50], a family name[51]; Kowalski[52], a family name[53]; Schmidt[54], a family name[55]; Schmid[56], a family name[57]; Schmitz[58], a family name[59]; Schmitt[60], a family name[61]; and Funk[62], a family name[63].

Why It Matters

blacksmith has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[64] blacksmith is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[65]

Entities named for blacksmith include Novokuznetsk[46], a city or town[47], in Russia[48], founded in 1618[49]; Smith[50], a family name[51]; Kowalski[52], a family name[53]; Schmidt[54], a family name[55]; Schmid[56], a family name[57]; and Schmitz[58], a family name[59].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . zhihu.com. Retrieved . zhihu.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  10. [63] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [64] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [65] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6039
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  2. 12w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Blacksmith
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Blacksmith, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296498
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  4. 16w ago · Hjart · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → smed
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Lex id: smed, Moving to metalsmith"
  5. 17w ago · S.Keim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → skilled trade, historical profession, occupation
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: occupation"
  6. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0241714-kovari
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  7. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-08 occupation class → 7221
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007283119405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  8. 21w ago · Jheald · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Esco occupation id → fccecd5d-ad90-41a8-bb89-96d7595abca3
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Esco occupation id: fccecd5d-ad90-41a8-bb89-96d7595abca3, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/29244333|blacksmith (#29244333)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog"
  9. 22w ago · Stuartyeates · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Blacksmiths
    Uses → —
    Product → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Library of congress authority id: sh85014713"
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