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ship burial

ship or boat used either as a container for the dead or as a part of the grave goods
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ship burial

Summary

ship burial ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (132 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ship burial is a type of grave[2].
  • ship burial is a type of tomb[3].
  • ship burial is a type of funeral[4].
  • ship burial's has cause is recorded as death[5].
  • ship burial's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Boat graves[6].
  • ship burial's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ship burials[7].
  • ship burial's different from is recorded as burial at sea[8].
  • ship burial's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Q140249898[9].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include grave[2], tomb[3], and funeral[4].

Why It Matters

ship burial ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (132 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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] ↑ . 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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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ship-burial_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ship burial}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ship-burial}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-08}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ship-burial
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: ship-burial, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959256|ship burial (#289959256)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 16w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → death
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Boat graves, Category:Ship burials
    Subclass of → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 39452, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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