coffin

container for transport, laying out and the burial of a corpse
Thing general Q184418
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coffin

Summary

coffin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (915 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • coffin is made of wood[2].
  • coffin is made of zinc[3].
  • coffin is a type of funerary container[4].
  • coffin is a type of furniture[5].
  • coffin is part of funeral[6].
  • coffin is used for funeral[7].
  • coffin's Commons category is recorded as Coffins[8].
  • coffin's said to be the same as is recorded as coffin[9].
  • coffin's Unicode character is recorded as ⚰[10].
  • coffin comprises Q2224850[11].
  • coffin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Coffins[12].
  • coffin's Commons gallery is recorded as Coffin[13].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[14].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[16].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • coffin's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[19].
  • coffin's manifestation of is recorded as death[20].
  • coffin's different from is recorded as key[21].
  • coffin's contains is recorded as carcass[22].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include funerary container[4] and furniture[5].

Use and Application

coffin is used for funeral[7]. coffin comprises Q2224850[11]. coffin is part of funeral[6].

Influence

Things named for coffin include Coffin Texts[23], a text corpus[24], founded in -2100[25] and witch window[26].

Why It Matters

coffin ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (915 views/month).[1] coffin has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] coffin is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for coffin include Coffin Texts[23], a text corpus[24], founded in -2100[25] and witch window[26].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . tesauromuseus.com.br. Retrieved . tesauromuseus.com.br. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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