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chain gang

group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment
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chain gang

Summary

chain gang is an occupation[1]. It draws 308 Wikipedia views per month (occupation category, ranking #119 of 676).[2]

Key Facts

  • chain gang's image is recorded as Chain Gang Street Sweepers, 1909.jpg[3].
  • chain gang's instance of is recorded as occupation[4].
  • chain gang's subclass of is recorded as group of humans[5].
  • chain gang's part of is recorded as detention[6].
  • chain gang's Commons category is recorded as Chain gangs[7].
  • chain gang's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01vblj[8].
  • chain gang's has characteristic is recorded as physical restraint[9].
  • chain gang's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/3422[10].
  • chain gang's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 08260169-n[11].

Why It Matters

chain gang draws 308 Wikipedia views per month (occupation category, ranking #119 of 676).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12]

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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_chain-gang_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{chain gang}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/chain-gang}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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