facula

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facula

Summary

facula ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • facula is credited with the discovery of Christoph Scheiner[2].
  • facula's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85130471[3].
  • facula's subclass of is recorded as region[4].
  • facula's part of is recorded as planetary nomenclature[5].
  • facula's Commons category is recorded as Faculae[6].
  • facula's Commons category is recorded as Solar faculae[7].
  • facula's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 56936[8].
  • facula's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/038z3r[9].
  • facula's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Faculae[10].
  • facula's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • facula's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00032683n[12].
  • facula's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 11825730[13].
  • facula's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007548496105171[14].
  • facula's KBpedia ID is recorded as BrightSpot-Topographical[15].
  • facula's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 11531760-n[16].
  • facula's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/c7903d2c-d08d-405f-b76b-8e5666ea7495[17].

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Works and Contributions

facula is credited with the discovery of Christoph Scheiner[2].

Why It Matters

facula ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).[1] facula has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] facula is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . A Short History of Astronomy. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . GF WordNet. 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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