Kryptos

encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn
VisualArtwork sculpture Q1345100
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Kryptos

Summary

Kryptos is a sculpture[1]. Kryptos ranks in the top 0.79% of sculpture entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (987 views/month, #12 of 1,525).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kryptos is the creator of Jim Sanborn[3].
  • Kryptos is located in Langley[4].
  • Kryptos is in the country of United States[5].
  • Kryptos's image is recorded as Kryptos sculptor.jpg[6].
  • Kryptos's instance of is recorded as sculpture[7].
  • Kryptos's instance of is recorded as fountain[8].
  • Kryptos's instance of is recorded as ciphertext[9].
  • Kryptos's commissioned by is recorded as Central Intelligence Agency[10].
  • Kryptos's made from material is recorded as copper[11].
  • Kryptos's made from material is recorded as granite[12].
  • Kryptos's made from material is recorded as petrified wood[13].
  • Kryptos's made from material is recorded as quartz[14].
  • Kryptos's location is recorded as George Bush Center for Intelligence[15].
  • Kryptos's Commons category is recorded as Kryptos[16].
  • +1990-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Kryptos[17].
  • Kryptos's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 38.952255, 'lon': -77.145773}[18].
  • Kryptos's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02bqzx[19].
  • Kryptos's significant event is recorded as opening ceremony[20].
  • Kryptos's main subject is recorded as cryptography[21].
  • Kryptos's described at URL is recorded as http://elonka.com/kryptos/[22].
  • Kryptos's title is recorded as {'lang': 'und', 'text': 'Kryptos'}[23].
  • Kryptos's date of official opening is recorded as +1990-11-03T00:00:00Z[24].
  • Kryptos's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03218516n[25].
  • Kryptos's OpenStreetMap node ID is recorded as 10009124744[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Kryptos is the creator of Jim Sanborn[3].

Why It Matters

Kryptos ranks in the top 0.79% of sculpture entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (987 views/month, #12 of 1,525).[2] Kryptos has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Kryptos is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_kryptos_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Kryptos}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/kryptos}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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