butter

dairy product
Product dairy_product Q34172
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butter

Summary

butter is a dairy product[1]. butter draws 3,258 Wikipedia views per month (dairy_product category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • butter's instance of is recorded as dairy product[3].
  • butter is made of cream[4].
  • butter is made of milk[5].
  • butter is a type of dry butter[6].
  • butter is a type of cream butter[7].
  • butter is a type of fat spread[8].
  • butter is used for spread[9].
  • butter is used for food ingredient[10].
  • butter's Commons category is recorded as Butter[11].
  • butter's Unicode character is recorded as 🧈[12].
  • butter comprises fat[13].
  • 8000 BC marks the founding of butter[14].
  • butter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Butter[15].
  • butter's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[16].
  • butter's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • butter's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • butter's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • butter's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[20].
  • butter's different from is recorded as spread butter[21].
  • butter's fabrication method is recorded as churning[22].
  • butter's hashtag is recorded as butter[23].
  • butter's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00003047[24].
  • butter's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].
  • butter's carbon footprint is recorded as {'unit': 'Q57084968', 'amount': '+10.6'}[26].
  • butter's carbon footprint is recorded as {'unit': 'Q57084968', 'amount': '+9'}[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for butter include butterfly[28], an organisms known by a particular common name[29]; Maslenitsa[30], a Slavic holiday[31], in Russia[32]; and butter knife[33].

Why It Matters

butter draws 3,258 Wikipedia views per month (dairy_product category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] butter has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] butter is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for butter include butterfly[28], an organisms known by a particular common name[29]; Maslenitsa[30], a Slavic holiday[31], in Russia[32]; and butter knife[33].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Q26882165. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Emojipedia. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . On Food and Cooking. 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] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . This is how the future tastes: the culinary compass for a healthy earth. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Ecological footprints of food and dishes in Germany. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . 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. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases
    Water footprint {'unit': 'Q57899268', 'amount': '+5553'}
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    Described by source Pauly–Wissowa, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +2
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