square

open public spaces in cities or towns, usually rectilinear, surrounded by buildings, and often located at the junction of two or more thoroughfares
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square

Summary

square ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (217 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • square's image is recorded as St Peter's Square, Vatican City - April 2007.jpg[2].
  • square's GND ID is recorded as 4046326-6[3].
  • square's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85103400[4].
  • square's subclass of is recorded as architectural structure[5].
  • square's subclass of is recorded as physical public space[6].
  • square's subclass of is recorded as open space[7].
  • square's subclass of is recorded as thoroughfare[8].
  • square's subclass of is recorded as geographic location[9].
  • square's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00563255[10].
  • square's Commons category is recorded as Urban squares[11].
  • square's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 7199[12].
  • square's has part is recorded as zócalo[13].
  • square's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01wkk9[14].
  • square's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph138941[15].
  • square's HDS ID is recorded as 048856[16].
  • square's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Town squares[17].
  • square's Commons gallery is recorded as Urban squares[18].
  • square's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300164841[19].
  • square's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008304[20].
  • square's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 711.55[21].
  • square's PSH ID is recorded as 284[22].
  • square's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25I144[23].
  • square's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=square[24].
  • square's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0132353[25].
  • square's described by source is recorded as Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for square include The Squaire[27], an office building[28], in Germany[29], founded in 2011[30].

Why It Matters

square ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (217 views/month).[1] square has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] square is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for square include The Squaire[27], an office building[28], in Germany[29], founded in 2011[30].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Wordnet 3.1 synset id 02687821-n, 08637370-n, 08637195-n
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