Home › Entities › general › overhead power line

overhead power line

above-ground structure for bulk transfer and distribution of electricity
Thing general Q2144320
overhead power line
Novoklimov · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

overhead power line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,729 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: power cable[2], high-voltage power line[3]
  • Part of: electrical grid[4]
  • Commons category: Overhead power lines[5]
  • Has part(s): ground wire[6], overhead power line conductor[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Overhead power lines[8], Category:High-voltage overhead power lines[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: power=line[10]
  • Short name: ВЛ[11], ПЛ[12]
  • Different from: overhead contact line[13], electrical cable[14]
  • P14692: Template:Morris Motor Company[15]

Why It Matters

overhead power line has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). overhead power line. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-power-line
MLA “overhead power line.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-power-line.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_overhead-power-line_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{overhead power line}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-power-line}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): overhead power line — https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-power-line (retrieved 2026-10-14)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/overhead-power-line · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → overhead-electric-lines
    Sitelink count → 31
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'f
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: overhead-electric-lines, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951209|overhead electric lines (#289951209)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Template:Morris Motor Company
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 8w ago · Jetam2 · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Short name → {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ВЛ'}, {'lang': 'uk', 'text': 'ПЛ'}
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Short name: OHL"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007192-elektricka-vedeni
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007192-elektricka-vedeni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → ground wire, overhead power line conductor
    Part of → electrical grid
    Part of → —
    Has parts → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 27748, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.