cistern

artificial reservoirs for the storage of water, typically water-tight tanks in a high part of a building or underground
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cistern

Summary

cistern ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (907 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cistern's image is recorded as Basilica Cistern, Constantinople.jpg[2].
  • cistern's GND ID is recorded as 4266710-0[3].
  • cistern's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85026112[4].
  • cistern's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12115867h[5].
  • cistern's subclass of is recorded as building[6].
  • cistern's subclass of is recorded as water reservoir[7].
  • cistern's Commons category is recorded as Cisterns[8].
  • cistern's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 39905[9].
  • cistern's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04n4fh[10].
  • cistern's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cisterns[11].
  • cistern's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300052558[12].
  • cistern's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 628.13[13].
  • cistern's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1667361[14].
  • cistern's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[15].
  • cistern's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[16].
  • cistern's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[17].
  • cistern's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/cistern[18].
  • cistern's name in kana is recorded as すいさう[19].
  • cistern's name in kana is recorded as すいそう[20].
  • cistern's different from is recorded as rainwater harvesting[21].
  • cistern's Pleiades category ID is recorded as cistern[22].
  • cistern's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cisterns[23].
  • cistern's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtyXVLlmyt3F[24].
  • cistern's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as cisterne[25].
  • cistern's Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID is recorded as 1087[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for cistern include tank[27], a weapon type[28].

Why It Matters

cistern ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (907 views/month).[1] cistern has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] cistern is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for cistern include tank[27], a weapon type[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . 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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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