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cannon

class of artillery which fires at a low or flat trajectory
Product weapon_type Q81103
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cannon

Summary

cannon is a weapon type[1]. cannon ranks in the top 8% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (857 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • cannon's instance of is recorded as weapon type[3].
  • cannon is a type of artillery gun[4].
  • cannon is a type of direct-fire gun[5].
  • cannon is part of artillery[6].
  • cannon's Commons category is recorded as Cannons[7].
  • cannon's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1326[8].
  • cannon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cannon[9].
  • cannon's Commons gallery is recorded as Cannon[10].
  • cannon's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as historic=cannon[11].
  • cannon's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[12].
  • cannon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • cannon's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • cannon's different from is recorded as Cannon[15].
  • cannon's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16].

Why It Matters

cannon ranks in the top 8% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (857 views/month).[2] cannon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] cannon is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → artillery gun, direct-fire gun
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2312, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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