posthumous name

honorary name given to royalty, nobles, and sometimes others, after the person's death
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posthumous name

Summary

posthumous name ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • posthumous name's subclass of is recorded as name[2].
  • posthumous name's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00568811[3].
  • posthumous name's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0swbx[4].
  • posthumous name's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Posthumous names[5].
  • posthumous name's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[6].
  • posthumous name's has characteristic is recorded as posthumous[7].
  • posthumous name's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1786[8].
  • posthumous name's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19663234[9].
  • posthumous name's National Library of Korea ID is recorded as KSH1998007252[10].
  • posthumous name's Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID is recorded as E0032521[11].
  • posthumous name's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 132471[12].

Why It Matters

posthumous name ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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