griot

storyteller of oral tradition in West Africa
Intangible profession Q511054
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griot

Summary

griot is a profession[1]. griot ranks in the top 3% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (681 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • griot's image is recorded as Balafon griot (1).jpg[3].
  • griot's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • griot's GND ID is recorded as 4242664-9[5].
  • griot's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh95000901[6].
  • griot's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12650538k[7].
  • griot's subclass of is recorded as narrator[8].
  • griot's Commons category is recorded as Griots[9].
  • griot's field of this occupation is recorded as griot music[10].
  • griot's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02f0_d[11].
  • griot's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Griots[12].
  • griot's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX5729060[13].
  • griot's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300260302[14].
  • griot's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0113004[15].
  • griot's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/griot[16].
  • griot's BBC Things ID is recorded as ab21db1f-5efc-4cb1-9358-22692cd84c11[17].
  • griot's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'griotte'}[18].
  • griot's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'pt-br', 'text': 'griot'}[19].
  • griot's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1931393[20].
  • griot's NE.se ID is recorded as griot[21].
  • griot's male form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'pt-br', 'text': 'griot'}[22].
  • griot's Quora topic ID is recorded as Griot[23].
  • griot's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as griots[24].
  • griot's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as griot[25].
  • griot's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as griot[26].
  • griot's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294914285[27].

Why It Matters

griot ranks in the top 3% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (681 views/month).[2] griot has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] griot is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . datos.bne.es. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). griot. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/griot
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_griot_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{griot}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/griot}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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