ferry

type of ship travelling over short to medium distances between two places transporting people, cars or trains and acting like a replacement for a bridge
Vehicle ship_type Q25653
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ferry

Summary

ferry is a ship type[1]. ferry draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (ship_type category, ranking #47 of 315).[2]

Key Facts

  • ferry's image is recorded as Bastø VIII (former Bastø V) leaving Horten.jpg[3].
  • ferry's instance of is recorded as ship type[4].
  • ferry's GND ID is recorded as 4127897-5[5].
  • ferry's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85047856[6].
  • ferry's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11978911c[7].
  • ferry's subclass of is recorded as ship[8].
  • ferry's subclass of is recorded as merchant vessel[9].
  • ferry's subclass of is recorded as watercraft[10].
  • ferry's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00563125[11].
  • ferry's Commons category is recorded as Ferries[12].
  • ferry's Unicode character is recorded as ⛴[13].
  • ferry's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 18084[14].
  • ferry's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ddnl[15].
  • ferry's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph929103[16].
  • ferry's HDS ID is recorded as 007957[17].
  • ferry's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ferries[18].
  • ferry's Commons gallery is recorded as Ferry[19].
  • ferry's page banner is recorded as Ferries-banner-01.jpg[20].
  • ferry's described at URL is recorded as https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/02/ferries-emissions-sulphur-pollution-cars-eu-capitals[21].
  • ferry's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300178870[22].
  • ferry's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 386[23].
  • ferry's KulturNav-ID is recorded as 7fa5d768-0439-46c1-ae42-65b32c1c6e9d[24].
  • ferry's Iconclass notation is recorded as 46C1112[25].
  • ferry's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0080071[26].
  • ferry's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0108754[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for ferry include De Punt[28], a village[29], in Netherlands[30].

Why It Matters

ferry draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (ship_type category, ranking #47 of 315).[2] ferry has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] ferry is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for ferry include De Punt[28], a village[29], in Netherlands[30].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Watercraft types. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Watercraft types. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Watercraft types. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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