Prince Rupert's Drop

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Prince Rupert's Drop
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Prince Rupert's Drop

Summary

Prince Rupert's Drop ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Prince Rupert's Drop's video is recorded as Prince Rupert's Drops- 400 Year Old Mystery Revealed.webm[2].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's image is recorded as Prince Ruperts drops.jpg[3].
  • Prince Rupert of the Rhine is named after Prince Rupert's Drop[4].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's made from material is recorded as tempered glass[5].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's subclass of is recorded as novelty item[6].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's subclass of is recorded as drop[7].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's has use is recorded as demonstration[8].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Commons category is recorded as Prince Rupert's Drop[9].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's has part is recorded as end[10].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's has part is recorded as end[11].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05cn9y[12].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's has characteristic is recorded as residual stress[13].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00801909n[14].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Quora topic ID is recorded as Prince-Ruperts-Drop[15].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20745774[16].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's schematic is recorded as Neri-a-art-1662-RTL014704-p386-figure.png[17].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 207681016[18].
  • Prince Rupert's Drop's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 루퍼트 왕자의 구슬[19].

Why It Matters

Prince Rupert's Drop ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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