motte-and-bailey castle

fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork
Thing type_of_building Q92062
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motte-and-bailey castle

Summary

motte-and-bailey castle is a type of building[1]. It ranks in the top 10% of type_of_building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (946 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • motte-and-bailey castle's video is recorded as Castell y Rhodwydd, Nant y Garth, Sir Ddinbych.webm[3].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's image is recorded as Sycharth home of Owain Glyndwr, Last Prince of Wales 23.jpg[4].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's instance of is recorded as type of building[5].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's GND ID is recorded as 4170612-2[6].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's subclass of is recorded as castle[7].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Commons category is recorded as Motte and bailey[8].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/020rzt[9].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Motte-and-bailey castles[10].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300175482[11].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/motte-and-bailey-castle[13].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's different from is recorded as motte[14].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's time period is recorded as Middle Ages[15].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as keep[16].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as ward[17].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as rampart[18].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as palisade[19].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as Q25640475[20].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's has part is recorded as Q25640481[21].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtMePS40Tj2W[22].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's FOIH heritage types ID is recorded as 299[23].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 392[24].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's Joconde discovery ID is recorded as T115-4111[25].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's KBpedia ID is recorded as Motte-And-BaileyCastle[26].
  • motte-and-bailey castle's World History Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Motte_and_Bailey_Castle[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for motte-and-bailey castle include motte-and-bailey fallacy[28], an informal fallacy[29].

Why It Matters

motte-and-bailey castle ranks in the top 10% of type_of_building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (946 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include motte-and-bailey fallacy[28], an informal fallacy[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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] . eu.wikipedia.org. eu.wikipedia.org. Provenance: 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] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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