Nippon Professional Baseball

baseball league representing the highest level of professional baseball in Japan
Organization baseball_league Q1146127
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Nippon Professional Baseball

Summary

Nippon Professional Baseball is a baseball league[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of baseball_league entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,271 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nippon Professional Baseball is in the country of Japan[3].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's image is recorded as Interior of Tokyo Dome 201904b.jpg[4].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's instance of is recorded as baseball league[5].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's instance of is recorded as professional sports league[6].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's instance of is recorded as sports organization[7].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's main regulatory text is recorded as Nippon Professional Baseball Agreement[8].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's logo image is recorded as NPB logo.svg[9].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's headquarters location is recorded as Uchisaiwaichō[10].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's headquarters location is recorded as Shiba[11].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 157541680[12].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as nr00028739[13].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's NACSIS-CAT author ID is recorded as DA1143963X[14].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00295045[15].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's Commons category is recorded as Nippon Professional Baseball[16].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's has part is recorded as Q11506879[17].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's has part is recorded as Central League[18].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's has part is recorded as Pacific League[19].
  • +1950-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Nippon Professional Baseball[20].
  • +1948-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Nippon Professional Baseball[21].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's sport is recorded as baseball[22].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012xwy[23].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's official website is recorded as https://npb.jp/[24].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's official website is recorded as https://npb.jp/eng/[25].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's topic's main category is recorded as Q9230560[26].
  • Nippon Professional Baseball's number of participants is recorded as {'amount': '+12'}[27].

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include +1950-00-00T00:00:00Z[20] and +1948-00-00T00:00:00Z[21].

Identity

Nippon Professional Baseball's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '一般社団法人日本野球機構'}[28]. Its short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'NPB'}[29].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Uchisaiwaichō[10], a chōchō[30], in Japan[31] and Shiba[11], a chōchō[32], in Japan[33].

Why It Matters

Nippon Professional Baseball ranks in the top 4% of baseball_league entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,271 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

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  12. [14] . CiNii Research. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . 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. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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