Merino

breed of sheep
Taxon sheep_breed Q651765
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Merino

Summary

Merino is a sheep breed[1]. Merino ranks in the top 0.5% of sheep_breed entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,171 views/month, #1 of 200).[2]

Key Facts

  • Merino is in the country of Spain[3].
  • Merino is in the country of Portugal[4].
  • Merino's image is recorded as Merino sheep.png[5].
  • Merino's instance of is recorded as sheep breed[6].
  • Merino's GND ID is recorded as 4204129-6[7].
  • Merino's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85083839[8].
  • Merino's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 120075088[9].
  • Merino's subclass of is recorded as sheep[10].
  • Merino's Commons category is recorded as Merino (breed)[11].
  • Merino's country of origin is recorded as Spain[12].
  • Merino's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 47024[13].
  • Merino's has part is recorded as German Mutton Merino[14].
  • Merino's has part is recorded as Merinolandschaf[15].
  • Merino's has part is recorded as Merinolangwollschaf[16].
  • Merino's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02ldwn[17].
  • Merino's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1007224[18].
  • Merino's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Merino (breed)[19].
  • Merino's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 636.36[20].
  • Merino's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21].
  • Merino's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • Merino's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[23].
  • Merino's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[24].
  • Merino's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000368737[25].
  • Merino's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Merino-breed-of-sheep[26].
  • Merino's BBC Things ID is recorded as d8cbf9a2-496d-41bd-97d2-49272883da35[27].

Why It Matters

Merino ranks in the top 0.5% of sheep_breed entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,171 views/month, #1 of 200).[2] Merino has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Merino is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . 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] . BBC Things. wikidata.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.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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