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crank

Summary

crank is a pejorative[1]. crank draws 111 Wikipedia views per month (pejorative category, ranking #50 of 91).[2]

Key Facts

  • crank's instance of is recorded as pejorative[3].
  • crank's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/021_1s[4].
  • crank's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as fous-litteraires[5].
  • crank's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:Crackpot[6].
  • crank's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09994026-n[7].

Why It Matters

crank draws 111 Wikipedia views per month (pejorative category, ranking #50 of 91).[2] crank has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] crank is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). crank. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q1138434
MLA “crank.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q1138434.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_crank-q1138434_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{crank}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q1138434}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): crank — https://4ort.xyz/entity/crank-q1138434 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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