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shaggy dog story

Summary

shaggy dog story ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (537 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • shaggy dog story's subclass of is recorded as joke[2].
  • shaggy dog story's subclass of is recorded as narrative[3].
  • shaggy dog story's subclass of is recorded as anti-humor[4].
  • shaggy dog story's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0702n[5].
  • shaggy dog story's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2014026175[6].
  • shaggy dog story's does not have characteristic is recorded as Chekhov's gun[7].
  • shaggy dog story's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/ShaggyDogStory[8].
  • shaggy dog story's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Shaggy_dog_story[9].

Why It Matters

shaggy dog story ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (537 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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