cairn

man-made directional pile of stones or burial monument
Place point_of_orientation Q7321974
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cairn

Summary

cairn is a point of orientation[1]. cairn draws 1,588 Wikipedia views per month (point_of_orientation category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • cairn's image is recorded as 5210 - Near Eigergletscher Station.JPG[3].
  • cairn's instance of is recorded as point of orientation[4].
  • cairn's made from material is recorded as stone[5].
  • cairn's subclass of is recorded as civil engineering construction[6].
  • cairn's subclass of is recorded as work of art[7].
  • cairn's subclass of is recorded as trail blazing[8].
  • cairn's Commons category is recorded as Cairns (rock stack landmarks)[9].
  • cairn's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021ff[10].
  • cairn's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cairns (rock stack landmarks)[11].
  • cairn's Commons gallery is recorded as Cairn[12].
  • cairn's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300006960[13].
  • cairn's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as man_made=cairn[14].
  • cairn's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • cairn's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • cairn's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/cairn[17].
  • cairn's different from is recorded as chambered cairn[18].
  • cairn's different from is recorded as false cairn[19].
  • cairn's different from is recorded as rock balancing[20].
  • cairn's GeoNames feature code is recorded as S.CARN[21].
  • cairn's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtAqKgmvERHQ[22].
  • cairn's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as varde[23].
  • cairn's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776332012[24].
  • cairn's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 487[25].
  • cairn's Lex ID is recorded as varde[26].
  • cairn's KBpedia ID is recorded as Cairn[27].

Body

Designation and Status

cairn's instance of is recorded as point of orientation[4].

Cultural Significance

Things named for cairn include Three-Country Cairn[28], a boundary marker[29], in Finland[30], founded in 1897[31].

Why It Matters

cairn draws 1,588 Wikipedia views per month (point_of_orientation category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] cairn has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] cairn is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for cairn include Three-Country Cairn[28], a boundary marker[29], in Finland[30], founded in 1897[31].

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] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . 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. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cairn_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cairn}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cairn}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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