shrapnel shell

anti-personnel artillery shell which carried a large number of individual bullets
Product weapon_type Q750604
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shrapnel shell

Summary

shrapnel shell is a weapon type[1]. It draws 501 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #173 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • shrapnel shell is credited with the discovery of Henry Shrapnel[3].
  • shrapnel shell's image is recorded as Sectioned British 18-pounder shrapnel round photograph.jpg[4].
  • shrapnel shell's instance of is recorded as weapon type[5].
  • Henry Shrapnel is named after shrapnel shell[6].
  • shrapnel shell's GND ID is recorded as 4436315-1[7].
  • shrapnel shell's subclass of is recorded as shell[8].
  • shrapnel shell's Commons category is recorded as Shrapnel shell[9].
  • shrapnel shell's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 49829[10].
  • shrapnel shell's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/099pp[11].
  • shrapnel shell's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.4514[12].
  • shrapnel shell's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0241042[13].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[18].
  • shrapnel shell's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19].
  • shrapnel shell's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4921415[20].
  • shrapnel shell's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3983414[21].
  • shrapnel shell's TOPCMB ID is recorded as shrapnel[22].
  • shrapnel shell's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04217079-n[23].
  • shrapnel shell's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as metralla[24].
  • shrapnel shell's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 14990[25].

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Works and Contributions

shrapnel shell is credited with the discovery of Henry Shrapnel[3].

Why It Matters

shrapnel shell draws 501 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #173 of 694).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . notes.rolandcrosby.com. notes.rolandcrosby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . 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] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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