fire hydrant

connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply
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fire hydrant

Summary

fire hydrant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (493 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fire hydrant's image is recorded as Downtown Charlottesville fire hydrant.jpg[2].
  • fire hydrant's GND ID is recorded as 7566089-1[3].
  • fire hydrant's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85063291[4].
  • fire hydrant's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12515133z[5].
  • fire hydrant's subclass of is recorded as hydrant[6].
  • fire hydrant's subclass of is recorded as Q11559528[7].
  • fire hydrant's has use is recorded as firefighting[8].
  • fire hydrant's Commons category is recorded as Fire hydrants[9].
  • fire hydrant's color is recorded as red[10].
  • fire hydrant's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 43250[11].
  • fire hydrant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01pns0[12].
  • fire hydrant's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fire hydrants[13].
  • fire hydrant's Commons gallery is recorded as Fire hydrant[14].
  • fire hydrant's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300112086[15].
  • fire hydrant's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 628.9252[16].
  • fire hydrant's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as emergency=fire_hydrant[17].
  • fire hydrant's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • fire hydrant's name in kana is recorded as しょうかせん[19].
  • fire hydrant's name in kana is recorded as せうくわせん[20].
  • fire hydrant's different from is recorded as fire cistern[21].
  • fire hydrant's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00034655n[22].
  • fire hydrant's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3150688[23].
  • fire hydrant's Treccani ID is recorded as idrante[24].
  • fire hydrant's Open Library subject ID is recorded as fire_hydrants[25].
  • fire hydrant's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as brannhydrant[26].

Why It Matters

fire hydrant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (493 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  15. [16] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . OpenStreetMap Wiki. wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fire-hydrant_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fire hydrant}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fire-hydrant}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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