Great Chicago Fire

1871 conflagration in Chicago, Illinois
Event city_fire Q70520
Great Chicago Fire
John R. Chapin, died 1907 · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Great Chicago Fire

Summary

Great Chicago Fire is a city fire[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of city_fire entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,896 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Chicago Fire is located in Chicago[3].
  • Great Chicago Fire is in the country of United States[4].
  • Great Chicago Fire's image is recorded as Chicago-fire1.jpg[5].
  • Great Chicago Fire's instance of is recorded as city fire[6].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh97008117[7].
  • Great Chicago Fire's location is recorded as Chicago[8].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Commons category is recorded as Great Chicago Fire of 1871[9].
  • Great Chicago Fire's start time is recorded as +1871-10-08T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Great Chicago Fire's end time is recorded as +1871-10-10T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Great Chicago Fire's point in time is recorded as +1871-10-08T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Great Chicago Fire's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 41.86922222222222, 'lon': -87.642}[13].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b1dv[14].
  • Great Chicago Fire's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Great Chicago Fire[15].
  • Great Chicago Fire's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+300'}[16].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Chiago-Fire[17].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Encyclopedia of Chicago ID is recorded as 1740[18].
  • Great Chicago Fire's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007549193005171[19].
  • Great Chicago Fire's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/ef0e1c6a-c28d-4ee9-97f2-840cdc7d5c1d[20].

Why It Matters

Great Chicago Fire ranks in the top 6% of city_fire entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,896 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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