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Summary

governor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (159 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • governor's subclass of is recorded as physical technological component[2].
  • governor's has use is recorded as control[3].
  • governor's Commons category is recorded as Governors (device)[4].
  • governor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027lw7[5].
  • governor's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[6].
  • governor's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/governor-machine-component[7].
  • governor's manifestation of is recorded as controller[8].
  • governor's icon is recorded as IEEE 315 Contacts, Switches, Contactors, and Relays Symbols (153).svg[9].
  • governor's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 12978[10].
  • governor's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781233147[11].
  • governor's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2781233147[12].

Why It Matters

governor ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (159 views/month).[1] governor has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] governor is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). governor. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/governor-q3229617
MLA “governor.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/governor-q3229617.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_governor-q3229617_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{governor}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/governor-q3229617}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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