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vessel for liquids
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cup

Summary

cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (724 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cup is a type of drinking vessel[2].
  • cup is a type of container[3].
  • cup is a type of vessel[4].
  • cup is used for drinking[5].
  • cup's Commons category is recorded as Cups[6].
  • cup's said to be the same as is recorded as cup with stem[7].
  • cup's said to be the same as is recorded as teacup[8].
  • cup's facet of is recorded as tableware[9].
  • cup's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10].
  • cup's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • cup's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • cup's different from is recorded as Cup[13].
  • cup's contains is recorded as liquid[14].
  • cup's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Food and drink[15].
  • cup's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Packaging[16].
  • cup's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Technology[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include drinking vessel[2], container[3], and vessel[4].

Use and Application

cup is used for drinking[5].

Why It Matters

cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (724 views/month).[1] cup has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] cup is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . 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.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains → liquid
    Subclass of → —
    Has use → drinking
    Different from → Cup
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007562725405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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