gargoyle

sculpture of a grotesque being or animal on a building, often used as a waterspout
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gargoyle

Summary

gargoyle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (543 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • gargoyle's image is recorded as Auberge of the lingua of France - Gargoyle 01.jpg[2].
  • gargoyle's GND ID is recorded as 4200058-0[3].
  • gargoyle's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85053162[4].
  • gargoyle's subclass of is recorded as sculpture[5].
  • gargoyle's subclass of is recorded as architectural sculpture[6].
  • gargoyle's subclass of is recorded as rain gutter[7].
  • gargoyle's Commons category is recorded as Gargoyles[8].
  • gargoyle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dbs2[9].
  • gargoyle's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph385061[10].
  • gargoyle's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300002330[11].
  • gargoyle's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1252014[12].
  • gargoyle's Iconclass notation is recorded as 41A39172[13].
  • gargoyle's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0111295[14].
  • gargoyle's depicted by is recorded as Lion heads gargoyles from the temple of Himera[15].
  • gargoyle's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • gargoyle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • gargoyle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/gargoyle[18].
  • gargoyle's different from is recorded as gargoyle[19].
  • gargoyle's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as gargouille[20].
  • gargoyle's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as kunst-tot-de-renaissance/gargouille[21].
  • gargoyle's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as gargoyles[22].
  • gargoyle's wears is recorded as nudity[23].
  • gargoyle's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as https://ark.frantiq.fr/ark:/26678/pcrtbf4b7d5grk1zg54fptvr[24].
  • gargoyle's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtbf4b7d5grk1zg54fptvr[25].
  • gargoyle's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as gargouille[26].

Why It Matters

gargoyle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (543 views/month).[1] gargoyle has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] gargoyle is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  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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