Home › Entities › general › football

football

ball inflated with air that is used to play one of the various sports known as football
Thing general Q262090
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

football

Summary

football ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • football is a type of ball[2].
  • football is a type of sports equipment[3].
  • football's Commons category is recorded as Footballs[4].
  • football's Unicode character is recorded as ⚽[5].
  • football's sport is recorded as football[6].
  • football's used by is recorded as football[7].
  • football's different from is recorded as Football[8].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include ball[2] and sports equipment[3].

Use and Application

football's used by is recorded as football[7].

Why It Matters

football ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month).[1] football has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] football is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). football. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/football-q262090
MLA “football.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/football-q262090.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_football-q262090_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{football}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/football-q262090}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): football — https://4ort.xyz/entity/football-q262090 (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/football-q262090 · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → ball, sports equipment
    Sport → football
    Subclass of → —
    Different from → Football
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007543326705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.