petroleum

naturally occurring flammable liquid
Thing product Q22656
petroleum
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petroleum

Summary

petroleum is a product[1]. petroleum ranks in the top 1% of product entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,040 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • petroleum's instance of is recorded as product[3].
  • petroleum's instance of is recorded as nonmineral[4].
  • petroleum's instance of is recorded as mixture[5].
  • petroleum's instance of is recorded as commodity[6].
  • petroleum is a type of organic non-mineral compound[7].
  • petroleum is a type of fossil fuel[8].
  • petroleum is a type of oil[9].
  • petroleum's Commons category is recorded as Petroleum[10].
  • petroleum's has cause is recorded as Carboniferous[11].
  • petroleum's UN classification code is recorded as F1[12].
  • petroleum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Petroleum[13].
  • petroleum's Commons gallery is recorded as Petroleum[14].
  • petroleum's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as resource=oil[15].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[18].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[19].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[22].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[25].
  • petroleum's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[26].
  • petroleum's has effect is recorded as climate change[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include product[3], nonmineral[4], mixture[5], and commodity[6]. Recorded subclass of include organic non-mineral compound[7], fossil fuel[8], and oil[9].

Influence

Things named for petroleum include Age of Oil[28], an era[29]; Petroleum County[30], a county of Montana[31], in United States[32], founded in 1926[33]; Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast[34], a ghost town[35], in Russia[36]; tonne of oil equivalent[37], an unit of energy[38]; Naftan oil refinery[39], an enterprise[40], in Belarus[41], founded in 1963[42], headquartered in Navapolack[43]; and Nefteyugansk[44], an administrative divisions of Russia[45], in Russia[46], founded in 1961[47].

Why It Matters

petroleum ranks in the top 1% of product entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,040 views/month).[2] petroleum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] petroleum is known by 92 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Entities named for petroleum include Age of Oil[28], an era[29]; Petroleum County[30], a county of Montana[31], in United States[32], founded in 1926[33]; Neftegorsk, Sakhalin Oblast[34], a ghost town[35], in Russia[36]; tonne of oil equivalent[37], an unit of energy[38]; Naftan oil refinery[39], an enterprise[40], in Belarus[41], founded in 1963[42], headquartered in Navapolack[43]; and Nefteyugansk[44], an administrative divisions of Russia[45], in Russia[46], founded in 1961[47].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . 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] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . un.org. Retrieved . un.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [37] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [47] . 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. [48] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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