butte

isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top
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butte

Summary

butte ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (600 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • butte's image is recorded as Big Pinnacle of Pilot Mountain.jpg[2].
  • butte's subclass of is recorded as landform[3].
  • butte's Commons category is recorded as Inselbergs[4].
  • butte's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01xqrf[5].
  • butte's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Buttes[6].
  • butte's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008744[7].
  • butte's facet of is recorded as mountain[8].
  • butte's facet of is recorded as geomorphology[9].
  • butte's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • butte's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[11].
  • butte's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[12].
  • butte's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[13].
  • butte's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/butte-geology[14].
  • butte's different from is recorded as hillock[15].
  • butte's different from is recorded as inselberg[16].
  • butte's different from is recorded as outlier[17].
  • butte's GeoNames feature code is recorded as T.BUTE[18].
  • butte's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000287[19].
  • butte's Environment Ontology ID is recorded as 00000287[20].
  • butte's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 167391731[21].
  • butte's Lex ID is recorded as butte[22].
  • butte's KBpedia ID is recorded as Butte[23].
  • butte's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09253109-n[24].
  • butte's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C167391731[25].
  • butte's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as ostantsy-5683e4[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for butte include Butte County[27], a county of South Dakota[28], in United States[29], founded in 1883[30].

Why It Matters

butte ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (600 views/month).[1] butte has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] butte is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for butte include Butte County[27], a county of South Dakota[28], in United States[29], founded in 1883[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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