spire

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spire

Summary

spire is a roof shape[1]. spire draws 320 Wikipedia views per month (roof_shape category, ranking #3 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • spire's image is recorded as Salisbury Cathedral.jpg[3].
  • spire's instance of is recorded as roof shape[4].
  • spire's instance of is recorded as architectural element[5].
  • spire's GND ID is recorded as 4462310-0[6].
  • spire's subclass of is recorded as building part[7].
  • spire's part of is recorded as steeple[8].
  • spire's Commons category is recorded as Spires[9].
  • spire's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 67762[10].
  • spire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01c6yl[11].
  • spire's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300002360[12].
  • spire's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 690.15[13].
  • spire's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 721.5[14].
  • spire's Iconclass notation is recorded as 41A3611[15].
  • spire's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0173382[16].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10[19].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Diccionario de Arquitectura Civil[20].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Kenchiku-gaku Yōgo Jiten (Dai 2-han)[22].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Architecture and Building (2nd edition)[23].
  • spire's described by source is recorded as The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture[24].
  • spire's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/spire[25].
  • spire's shape is recorded as cone[26].
  • spire's shape is recorded as pyramid[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for spire include Ponte delle Guglie[28], an arch bridge[29], in Italy[30].

Why It Matters

spire draws 320 Wikipedia views per month (roof_shape category, ranking #3 of 22).[2] spire has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] spire is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for spire include Ponte delle Guglie[28], an arch bridge[29], in Italy[30].

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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . 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.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . 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. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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