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Pontiac

automobile brand of General Motors
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Pontiac
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Summary

Pontiac is a car brand[1]. Pontiac ranks in the top 7% of car brand entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,282 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: division[3]
  • Founder: William Crapo Durant[4]
  • Owned by: General Motors[5]
  • Named after: Pontiac[6]
  • Headquarters location: Detroit[7]
  • Commons category: Pontiac[8]
  • Industry: automotive industry[9]
  • Inception: January 1, 1926[10]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: October 31, 2010[11]
  • Location of formation: Pontiac[12]
  • Parent organization or unit: General Motors[13]
  • Official website: http://www.pontiac.com/[14]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pontiac (automobile)[15]
  • Product or material produced: car[16]

Why It Matters

Pontiac has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Pontiac is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

General Motors Pontiac

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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . liveabout.com. liveabout.com. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · הנדב הנכון · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → Pontiac
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Native label: Pontiac"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product or material produced → car
    Industry → —
    Founded by → —
    Inception → +1926-01-01T00:00:00Z
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007563139705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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