honey

sweet food made by bees mostly using nectar from flowers
Product food_ingredient Q10987
honey
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honey

Summary

honey is a food ingredient[1]. honey ranks in the top 2% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,233 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • honey's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[3].
  • honey's instance of is recorded as organic matter[4].
  • honey is made of nectar[5].
  • honey is made of water[6].
  • honey is a type of confection[7].
  • honey is a type of syrup[8].
  • honey is a type of secretion or excretion[9].
  • honey is a type of fodder[10].
  • honey is a type of shelf-stable food[11].
  • honey is used for spread[12].
  • honey is used for ingredient[13].
  • honey is used for medicine[14].
  • honey's Commons category is recorded as Honey[15].
  • honey's Unicode character is recorded as 🍯[16].
  • honey's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Honey[17].
  • honey's Commons gallery is recorded as Honey[18].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[21].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[24].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[26].
  • honey's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for honey include Malta[28], a sovereign state[29], in Malta[30], founded in 1964[31]; mellite[32], a mineral species[33]; melilite[34], a mineral species[35]; and meliphanite[36], a mineral species[37].

Why It Matters

honey ranks in the top 2% of food_ingredient entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,233 views/month).[2] honey has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] honey is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for honey include Malta[28], a sovereign state[29], in Malta[30], founded in 1964[31]; mellite[32], a mineral species[33]; melilite[34], a mineral species[35]; and meliphanite[36], a mineral species[37].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Food Chemistry. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . guiderpress.com. guiderpress.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [37] . 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. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id 3145
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 3145, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107285373|honey (#107285373)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary]]"
  2. 10d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag honey
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: honey, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933024|honey (#289933024)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 18d ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  4. 24d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0002844-med
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002844-med, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  5. 7w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19754, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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