General Post Office

postal system in the United Kingdom
Organization organization Q1325334
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General Post Office

Summary

General Post Office is an organization[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (215 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • General Post Office's instance of is recorded as organization[3].
  • General Post Office's followed by is recorded as Post Office Limited[4].
  • General Post Office's ISNI is recorded as 000000012291387X[5].
  • General Post Office's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 138996776[6].
  • General Post Office's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n80050310[7].
  • General Post Office's child organization or unit is recorded as GPO Film Unit[8].
  • +1660-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of General Post Office[9].
  • General Post Office was dissolved in +1969-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • General Post Office's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04ygzjc[11].
  • General Post Office's SELIBR ID is recorded as 346984[12].
  • General Post Office's topic's main category is recorded as Category:General Post Office[13].
  • General Post Office's BBC Things ID is recorded as c81356da-d62a-4575-8412-2a509dabda5c[14].
  • General Post Office's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'GPO'}[15].
  • General Post Office's Cooper Hewitt person ID is recorded as 18049689[16].
  • General Post Office's YCBA agent ID is recorded as 8792[17].
  • General Post Office's Libris-URI is recorded as ljx16zn40khm8lp[18].
  • General Post Office's UK Parliament ID is recorded as mHvNQ7wn[19].
  • General Post Office's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 91326835[20].
  • General Post Office's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007596849405171[21].
  • General Post Office's Philadelphia Museum of Art entity ID is recorded as 63350[22].
  • General Post Office's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as kjfn5zuh[23].

Body

Founding

+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of General Post Office[9].

Identity

General Post Office's followed by is recorded as Post Office Limited[4]. Its short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'GPO'}[15].

Operations

General Post Office's child organization or unit is recorded as GPO Film Unit[8].

Dissolution

General Post Office was dissolved in +1969-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].

Why It Matters

General Post Office ranks in the top 3% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (215 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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