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ford

Summary

ford has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • ford is a type of road[2].
  • ford is a type of river crossing[3].
  • ford's Commons category is recorded as Fords[4].
  • ford's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fords[5].
  • ford's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as ford=yes[6].
  • ford's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • ford's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[8].
  • ford's different from is recorded as Q29626727[9].
  • ford's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000411[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include road[2] and river crossing[3].

Influence

Things named for ford include Bredevoort[11], a place with town rights and privileges[12], in Netherlands[13], founded in 1188[14]; Coevorden[15], a municipality of the Netherlands[16], in Netherlands[17]; Erfurt[18], a big city[19], in Kingdom of Prussia[20], founded in 0742[21]; Hertford[22], a civil parish[23], in United Kingdom[24], founded in 0912[25]; Chelmsford[26], a city[27], in United Kingdom[28]; and Amersfoort[29], a municipality of the Netherlands[30], in Netherlands[31], founded in 1259[32].

Why It Matters

ford has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] ford is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for ford include Bredevoort[11], a place with town rights and privileges[12], in Netherlands[13], founded in 1188[14]; Coevorden[15], a municipality of the Netherlands[16], in Netherlands[17]; Erfurt[18], a big city[19], in Kingdom of Prussia[20], founded in 0742[21]; Hertford[22], a civil parish[23], in United Kingdom[24], founded in 0912[25]; Chelmsford[26], a city[27], in United Kingdom[28]; and Amersfoort[29], a municipality of the Netherlands[30], in Netherlands[31], founded in 1259[32].

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] . wiki.openstreetmap.org. wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [11] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [13] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [14] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  16. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag fords-stream-crossings
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fords-stream-crossings, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289930938|fords stream crossings (#289930938)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalo"
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