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Great Big Sea

Canadian folk rock band
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Great Big Sea

Summary

Great Big Sea is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,035 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Big Sea's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Great Big Sea's genre is Celtic rock[4].
  • Great Big Sea's record label is recorded as Warner Music Canada[5].
  • Great Big Sea's discography is recorded as Great Big Sea discography[6].
  • Great Big Sea's Commons category is recorded as Great Big Sea[7].
  • Great Big Sea's country of origin is recorded as Canada[8].
  • Great Big Sea comprises Alan Doyle[9].
  • 1993 marks the founding of Great Big Sea[10].
  • Great Big Sea's official website is recorded as http://www.greatbigsea.com/[11].
  • Great Big Sea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great Big Sea[12].
  • Great Big Sea's topic has template is recorded as Template:Great Big Sea[13].
  • Great Big Sea's start of work period is recorded as 1993[14].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[15]

  • Country: CA[16]

  • Began / founded: 1993[17]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2013[18]

  • Genre(s): celtic, celtic punk, celtic rock, folk, folk rock, irish folk, pop[19]

  • Community tags: celtic, celtic punk, celtic rock, contemporary celtic, folk, folk rock, irish folk, newfoundland, pop, sea shanties, singer/songwriter[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 41a52c92-753f-4da4-bd9d-a01186cbbf6a[21]

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Founding

1993 marks the founding of Great Big Sea[10].

Why It Matters

Great Big Sea ranks in the top 5% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,035 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

Related Entities

Canada

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . musik-sammler.de. musik-sammler.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [19] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [20] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [21] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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