garden gnome

statue of a dwarf-like creature intended as a garden ornament
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garden gnome
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garden gnome

Summary

garden gnome ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (405 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • garden gnome's image is recorded as German garden gnome.jpg[2].
  • garden gnome's image is recorded as 7 garden gnomes.jpg[3].
  • garden gnome's image is recorded as Vollmondnacht - nur noch unbehelligt schlafen 20220909 203531.jpg[4].
  • garden gnome's GND ID is recorded as 4019317-2[5].
  • garden gnome's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13167973c[6].
  • garden gnome's subclass of is recorded as lawn ornament[7].
  • garden gnome's subclass of is recorded as dwarf statue[8].
  • garden gnome's Commons category is recorded as Garden gnomes[9].
  • garden gnome's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 31835[10].
  • garden gnome's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09gkmwd[11].
  • garden gnome's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph999107[12].
  • garden gnome's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Garden gnomes[13].
  • garden gnome's Commons gallery is recorded as Garden gnome[14].
  • garden gnome's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 717[15].
  • garden gnome's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1373613[16].
  • garden gnome's Iconclass notation is recorded as 41A6411[17].
  • garden gnome's different from is recorded as gnome[18].
  • garden gnome's Google Doodle is recorded as celebrating-garden-gnomes[19].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for garden gnome include gnome sort[20], a stable sorting algorithm[21].

Why It Matters

garden gnome ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (405 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Entities named for it include gnome sort[20], a stable sorting algorithm[21].

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] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_garden-gnome_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{garden gnome}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/garden-gnome}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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