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breaking wheel

torture device used for capital punishment
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breaking wheel

Summary

breaking wheel is an execution method[1]. It draws 1,919 Wikipedia views per month (execution_method category, ranking #11 of 40).[2]

Key Facts

  • breaking wheel's image is recorded as 17XX Richtrad anagoria.JPG[3].
  • breaking wheel's instance of is recorded as execution method[4].
  • breaking wheel's subclass of is recorded as mirror punishment[5].
  • breaking wheel's subclass of is recorded as torture instrument[6].
  • breaking wheel's has use is recorded as torture[7].
  • breaking wheel's Commons category is recorded as Breaking wheels[8].
  • breaking wheel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0127w2[9].
  • breaking wheel's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Breaking wheels[10].
  • breaking wheel's Commons gallery is recorded as Catherine wheel[11].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • breaking wheel's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • breaking wheel's partially coincident with is recorded as rack[18].
  • breaking wheel's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as steile_og_hjul[19].
  • breaking wheel's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Shan Tao[20].
  • breaking wheel's Lex ID is recorded as hjul_og_stejle[21].
  • breaking wheel's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 84225[22].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for breaking wheel include Catherine wheel[23].

Why It Matters

breaking wheel draws 1,919 Wikipedia views per month (execution_method category, ranking #11 of 40).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for it include Catherine wheel[23].

Related Entities

Catherine of Alexandria

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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . FactGrid. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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