Columbia

historical and poetic name used for the United States of America
Thing personification Q1112443
Columbia
John Gast · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Columbia

Summary

Columbia is a personification[1]. Columbia ranks in the top 8% of personification entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,223 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Columbia's image is recorded as American Progress (John Gast painting).jpg[3].
  • Columbia's instance of is recorded as personification[4].
  • Columbia's instance of is recorded as poetic country name[5].
  • Christopher Columbus is named after Columbia[6].
  • Columbia's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 306269780[7].
  • Columbia's GND ID is recorded as 1046584456[8].
  • Columbia's Commons category is recorded as Columbia[9].
  • Columbia's said to be the same as is recorded as Liberty[10].
  • Columbia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06rpf1[11].
  • Columbia's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[12].
  • Columbia's different from is recorded as Columbia[13].
  • Columbia's different from is recorded as Columbia[14].
  • Columbia's WorldCat Entities ID is recorded as E39PCjrr8vRyfp68w3hyt8F7pP[15].
  • Columbia's DDB person is recorded as 1046584456[16].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Columbia include Columbia[17], a city in the United States[18], in United States[19], founded in 1821[20]; Columbia County[21], a county of Florida[22], in United States[23], founded in 1832[24]; and Columbia Brewing Company, Tacoma[25], a brewery[26], in United States[27], founded in 1900[28].

Why It Matters

Columbia ranks in the top 8% of personification entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,223 views/month).[2] Columbia has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Columbia is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for Columbia include Columbia[17], a city in the United States[18], in United States[19], founded in 1821[20]; Columbia County[21], a county of Florida[22], in United States[23], founded in 1832[24]; and Columbia Brewing Company, Tacoma[25], a brewery[26], in United States[27], founded in 1900[28].

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] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [28] . 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. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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