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Descartes Prize

Summary

Descartes Prize is a science award[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of science_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Descartes Prize's instance of is recorded as science award[3].
  • René Descartes is named after Descartes Prize[4].
  • +2000-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Descartes Prize[5].
  • Descartes Prize's end time is recorded as +2007-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • Descartes Prize's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04m2h4[7].
  • Descartes Prize's conferred by is recorded as European Commission[8].
  • Descartes Prize's prize money is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4916', 'amount': '+1000000'}[9].
  • Descartes Prize's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Q26762540[10].

Why It Matters

Descartes Prize ranks in the top 10% of science_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (23 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

René Descartes science award

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] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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