quarry

place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate etc. has been excavated from the ground
Thing type_of_mining_site Q188040
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quarry

Summary

quarry is a type of mining site[1]. quarry draws 558 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_mining_site category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • quarry's image is recorded as Hühnerberg.jpg[3].
  • quarry's instance of is recorded as type of mining site[4].
  • quarry's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85109481[5].
  • quarry's subclass of is recorded as human-made landform[6].
  • quarry's subclass of is recorded as surface mine[7].
  • quarry's Commons category is recorded as Quarries[8].
  • quarry's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 15550[9].
  • quarry's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01c_9j[10].
  • quarry's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph508921[11].
  • quarry's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Quarries[12].
  • quarry's Commons gallery is recorded as Quarry[13].
  • quarry's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX526023[14].
  • quarry's described at URL is recorded as https://akp.nba.fi/wiki;louhos[15].
  • quarry's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300000402[16].
  • quarry's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25D34[17].
  • quarry's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as landuse=quarry[18].
  • quarry's described by source is recorded as Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[19].
  • quarry's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • quarry's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • quarry's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[22].
  • quarry's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/quarry-mining[23].
  • quarry's Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3070[24].
  • quarry's different from is recorded as Cantera[25].
  • quarry's different from is recorded as Cava[26].
  • quarry's different from is recorded as Lomy[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for quarry include Pedreira Paulo Leminski[28], an architectural structure[29], in Brazil[30].

Why It Matters

quarry draws 558 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_mining_site category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] quarry has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] quarry is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for quarry include Pedreira Paulo Leminski[28], an architectural structure[29], in Brazil[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . 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. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · DeltaBot bot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id b8245507-7d58-4a3c-b425-dd75cb475980
    Described by source Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Gnd id 4058898-1
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 4420795
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1424]]: [[Q139675130]], adding inverse claim"
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