sailor

person who navigates water-borne vessels or assists in doing so
Intangible profession Q45199
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sailor

Summary

sailor is a profession[1]. sailor ranks in the top 8% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sailor's image is recorded as Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F048234-0015, Kiel, Segelschiff "Gorch Fock", Matrosen.jpg[3].
  • sailor's instance of is recorded as profession[4].
  • sailor's instance of is recorded as maritime occupation[5].
  • sailor's GND ID is recorded as 4138252-3[6].
  • sailor's GND ID is recorded as 4332225-6[7].
  • sailor's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85119329[8].
  • sailor's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85083770[9].
  • sailor's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11944485z[10].
  • sailor's subclass of is recorded as ship's company[11].
  • sailor's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570668[12].
  • sailor's Commons category is recorded as Sailors[13].
  • sailor's field of this occupation is recorded as seamanship[14].
  • sailor's field of this occupation is recorded as sailing[15].
  • sailor's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 19772[16].
  • sailor's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/016wtf[17].
  • sailor's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph123418[18].
  • sailor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sailors[19].
  • sailor's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300136375[20].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 797.1092[21].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 387.5023[22].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 387.5092[23].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 359.0092[24].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 910.45092[25].
  • sailor's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.88092[26].
  • sailor's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10644233[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for sailor include Marinara sauce[28]; Dead Man's Chest[29], a fictional creative work[30]; Zeeman[31], a retail chain[32], in Netherlands[33], founded in 1967[34], headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn[35]; and Norwegian Seamen's Church[36], a seaman's church[37], in Netherlands[38], founded in 1914[39].

Why It Matters

sailor ranks in the top 8% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (378 views/month).[2] sailor has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] sailor is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

Entities named for sailor include Marinara sauce[28]; Dead Man's Chest[29], a fictional creative work[30]; Zeeman[31], a retail chain[32], in Netherlands[33], founded in 1967[34], headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn[35]; and Norwegian Seamen's Church[36], a seaman's church[37], in Netherlands[38], founded in 1914[39].

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] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: 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] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . RKDthesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] . 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. [40] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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