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Rube Goldberg machine

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Rube Goldberg machine

Summary

Rube Goldberg machine ranks in the top 0.89% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,008 views/month, #696 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Rube Goldberg machine's video is recorded as Something for nothing (1940).ogv[2].
  • Rube Goldberg is named after Rube Goldberg machine[3].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's subclass of is recorded as machine[4].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's Commons category is recorded as Rube Goldberg machines[5].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025s1xt[6].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's official website is recorded as https://www.rubegoldberg.com/[7].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's has characteristic is recorded as complexity[8].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/RubeGoldbergDevice[9].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's KBpedia ID is recorded as RubeGoldbergDevice[10].
  • Rube Goldberg machine's Toonopedia ID is recorded as devices[11].

Why It Matters

Rube Goldberg machine ranks in the top 0.89% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,008 views/month, #696 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Rube Goldberg

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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