rapier

slender, sharply pointed sword
Product weapon_type Q816745
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rapier

Summary

rapier is a weapon type[1]. rapier ranks in the top 5% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,003 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • rapier's image is recorded as Rapiere-Morges-kitsch.jpg[3].
  • rapier's instance of is recorded as weapon type[4].
  • rapier's subclass of is recorded as sword[5].
  • rapier's Commons category is recorded as Rapiers[6].
  • rapier's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Degen.ogg[7].
  • rapier's country of origin is recorded as Spain[8].
  • rapier's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09kdt[9].
  • rapier's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1026308[10].
  • rapier's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300037085[11].
  • rapier's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 157619[12].
  • rapier's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • rapier's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/rapier-sword[14].
  • rapier's different from is recorded as épée[15].
  • rapier's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3493788[16].
  • rapier's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kårde[17].
  • rapier's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].
  • rapier's Comic Vine ID is recorded as 4055-57477[19].
  • rapier's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3966092[20].
  • rapier's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 8224[21].
  • rapier's TOPCMB ID is recorded as rapieira[22].
  • rapier's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 66024[23].
  • rapier's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04061473-n[24].
  • rapier's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/64542B31-76C9-4870-B955-E93459F478D8[25].
  • rapier's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as RAPIER[26].
  • rapier's FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID is recorded as 95213[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for rapier include MT-12 antitank gun[28], an artillery model[29], founded in 1970[30]; T-12 antitank gun[31], an artillery model[32]; and French destroyer Fleuret[33], a destroyer[34].

Why It Matters

rapier ranks in the top 5% of weapon_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,003 views/month).[2] rapier has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] rapier is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for rapier include MT-12 antitank gun[28], an artillery model[29], founded in 1970[30]; T-12 antitank gun[31], an artillery model[32]; and French destroyer Fleuret[33], a destroyer[34].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . Freebase Data Dumps. 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] . GF WordNet. 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
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . 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
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . 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. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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