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rugby league

full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field
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rugby league

Summary

rugby league is a sports discipline[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of sports_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,739 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • rugby league's instance of is recorded as sports discipline[3].
  • rugby league is a type of rugby[4].
  • rugby league's Commons category is recorded as Rugby league[5].
  • rugby league's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[6].
  • 1895 marks the founding of rugby league[7].
  • rugby league's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1895[8].
  • rugby league's authority is recorded as Rugby League International Federation[9].
  • rugby league's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rugby league[10].
  • rugby league's Commons gallery is recorded as Rugby league[11].
  • rugby league's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Rugby league[12].
  • rugby league's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=rugby_league[13].
  • rugby league's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as rugby=league[14].
  • rugby league's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/RugbyLeague[15].
  • rugby league's different from is recorded as football[16].
  • rugby league's different from is recorded as rugby union[17].
  • rugby league's different from is recorded as Football[18].
  • rugby league's different from is recorded as Rugby[19].
  • rugby league's uses is recorded as rugby league ball[20].
  • rugby league's practiced by is recorded as rugby league player[21].
  • rugby league's practiced by is recorded as rugby league coach[22].
  • rugby league's practiced by is recorded as rugby league referee[23].
  • rugby league's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].

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Definition and Type

rugby league's instance of is recorded as sports discipline[3]. It is a type of rugby[4].

Origins

1895 marks the founding of rugby league[7].

Why It Matters

rugby league ranks in the top 3% of sports_discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,739 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

John Walker Rugby League Record Keepers Club Sonny Bill Williams United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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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] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Rugby league
    Authority → Rugby League International Federation
    Uses → rugby league ball
    Instance of → sports discipline
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007546333105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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