incipit

first few words of the opening line of a poem, song, or book, often used in lieu of a title
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incipit

Summary

incipit is a literature term[1]. incipit ranks in the top 6% of literature_term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (417 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • incipit's image is recorded as Opening vamp of "New York, New York".png[3].
  • incipit's instance of is recorded as literature term[4].
  • incipit's GND ID is recorded as 4114002-3[5].
  • incipit's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85064749[6].
  • incipit's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119489483[7].
  • incipit's subclass of is recorded as text[8].
  • incipit's subclass of is recorded as beginning[9].
  • incipit's part of is recorded as text[10].
  • incipit's part of is recorded as incipit index[11].
  • incipit's has use is recorded as identifier of text[12].
  • incipit's Commons category is recorded as Incipits[13].
  • incipit's said to be the same as is recorded as first line[14].
  • incipit's opposite of is recorded as explicit[15].
  • incipit's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 9482[16].
  • incipit's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03sy1x[17].
  • incipit's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph258174[18].
  • incipit's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Incipits[19].
  • incipit's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300055029[20].
  • incipit's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 090[21].
  • incipit's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0115972[22].
  • incipit's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0188380[23].
  • incipit's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[24].
  • incipit's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/incipit[25].
  • incipit's used by is recorded as description of text[26].
  • incipit's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1922[27].

Body

Geography

Part of include text[10], a type of work[28] and incipit index[11].

Designation and Status

incipit's instance of is recorded as literature term[4].

Why It Matters

incipit ranks in the top 6% of literature_term entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (417 views/month).[2] incipit has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] incipit is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

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] . A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000. Retrieved . oxfordreference.com. Provenance: 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] . A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000. Retrieved . oxfordreference.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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_incipit_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{incipit}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/incipit}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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