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Defense Meritorious Service Medal

United States military award
Intangible medallion Q2500323
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Summary

Defense Meritorious Service Medal is a medallion[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of medallion entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (522 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's image is recorded as Defense Meritorious Service Medal (United States) (cropped).jpg[3].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's instance of is recorded as medallion[4].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's instance of is recorded as military decoration[5].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's Commons category is recorded as Defense Meritorious Service Medal (United States)[6].
  • +1977-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Defense Meritorious Service Medal[7].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/039hzm[8].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Defense Meritorious Service Medal (United States)[9].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's service ribbon image is recorded as Defense Meritorious Service Medal ribbon.svg[10].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03637810n[11].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's next lower rank is recorded as Meritorious Service Medal[12].
  • Defense Meritorious Service Medal's next higher rank is recorded as Purple Heart[13].

Why It Matters

Defense Meritorious Service Medal ranks in the top 4% of medallion entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (522 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Barry E. Wilmore Dan Sullivan David Petraeus Lloyd J. Austin III Mark A. Milley Robert Crippen Susan J. Helms

References

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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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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