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Four Great Inventions

inventions from ancient China
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Four Great Inventions
Unknown pre-modern painter of the 1637 Tiangong Kaiwu of the Ming dynasty. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Four Great Inventions

Summary

Four Great Inventions ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (669 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Four Great Inventions's image is recorded as Making Paper.gif[2].
  • Four Great Inventions's subclass of is recorded as invention[3].
  • Four Great Inventions's country of origin is recorded as China[4].
  • Four Great Inventions's has part is recorded as gunpowder[5].
  • Four Great Inventions's has part is recorded as paper[6].
  • Four Great Inventions's has part is recorded as printing[7].
  • Four Great Inventions's has part is recorded as compass[8].
  • Four Great Inventions's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0118_0_5[9].
  • Four Great Inventions's union of is recorded as list of values as qualifiers[10].
  • Four Great Inventions's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19788172[11].

Why It Matters

Four Great Inventions ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (669 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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