Jaws

1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley
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Jaws

Summary

Jaws is a literary work[1]. Jaws ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,410 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Jaws authored Peter Benchley[3].
  • Jaws's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Jaws's commissioned by is recorded as Doubleday[5].
  • Jaws was published by Doubleday[6].
  • Jaws was published by Bantam Books[7].
  • Jaws's genre is thriller[8].
  • Jaws's Commons category is recorded as Jaws (novel)[9].
  • Jaws's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Jaws's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • Jaws was published on February 1974[12].
  • Jaws's cover art by is recorded as Paul Bacon[13].
  • Jaws's has edition or translation is recorded as Jaws[14].
  • Jaws's has edition or translation is recorded as Jaws[15].
  • Jaws's narrative location is recorded as New York[16].
  • Jaws's main subject is great white shark[17].
  • Jaws's main subject is shark attack[18].
  • Jaws's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Jaws'}[19].
  • Jaws's has characteristic is recorded as debut novel[20].
  • Jaws's different from is recorded as Szczęki[21].
  • Jaws's derivative work is recorded as Jaws[22].
  • Jaws's form of creative work is recorded as novel[23].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Album[24]

  • Secondary type(s): Audiobook[25]

  • First release date: 2009-04-07[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cc8e30ff-52ce-4028-97be-1f7963bc9acc[27]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Jaws authored Peter Benchley[3]. Publishers include Doubleday[6] and Bantam Books[7].

Publication

Jaws was published on February 1974[12]. Jaws's language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Jaws's genre is thriller[8].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include great white shark[17] and shark attack[18].

Why It Matters

Jaws ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,410 views/month).[2] Jaws has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.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.

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