homunculus

alchemical miniature human being
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homunculus

Summary

homunculus is a class of mythical entities[1]. homunculus draws 1,223 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_mythical_entities category, ranking #3 of 23).[2]

Key Facts

  • homunculus's image is recorded as Hexentanzplatz - Des Teufels Gehilfe.jpg[3].
  • homunculus's image is recorded as Beelden in Leiden 2016 04 crop.jpg[4].
  • homunculus's instance of is recorded as class of mythical entities[5].
  • homunculus's subclass of is recorded as mythic humanoid[6].
  • homunculus's Commons category is recorded as Homunculus[7].
  • homunculus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01v0jw[8].
  • homunculus's Iconclass notation is recorded as 13C4[9].
  • homunculus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0114912[10].
  • homunculus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • homunculus's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • homunculus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • homunculus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/homunculus-philosophy[14].
  • homunculus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/homunculus-biology[15].
  • homunculus's different from is recorded as homunculus in a work of fiction[16].
  • homunculus's different from is recorded as cortical homunculus[17].
  • homunculus's BabelNet ID is recorded as 02530530n[18].
  • homunculus's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2369198[19].
  • homunculus's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as homunculus[20].
  • homunculus's Comic Vine ID is recorded as 4015-51803[21].
  • homunculus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 25453261[22].
  • homunculus's The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ID is recorded as homunculus[23].
  • homunculus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as homuncle[24].
  • homunculus's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 29804[25].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for homunculus include cortical homunculus[26] and Homunculus Nebula[27], an emission nebula[28].

Why It Matters

homunculus draws 1,223 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_mythical_entities category, ranking #3 of 23).[2] homunculus has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] homunculus is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for homunculus include cortical homunculus[26] and Homunculus Nebula[27], an emission nebula[28].

References

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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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BabelNet. 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_homunculus_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{homunculus}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/homunculus}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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