Star of Bombay

182-carat cabochon-cut star sapphire from Sri Lanka
Product sapphire Q7601236
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Star of Bombay

Summary

Star of Bombay is a sapphire[1]. It draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (sapphire category, ranking #6 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Star of Bombay's image is recorded as Star of Bombay (crop bright NR).jpg[3].
  • Star of Bombay's instance of is recorded as sapphire[4].
  • Star of Bombay's owned by is recorded as Douglas Fairbanks[5].
  • Star of Bombay's owned by is recorded as Smithsonian Institution[6].
  • Mumbai is named after Star of Bombay[7].
  • Star of Bombay's location of discovery is recorded as Sri Lanka[8].
  • Star of Bombay's collection is recorded as National Museum of Natural History[9].
  • Star of Bombay's inventory number is recorded as NMNH G8845-00[10].
  • Star of Bombay's location is recorded as National Museum of Natural History[11].
  • Star of Bombay's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bccxw[12].
  • Star of Bombay's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q261247', 'amount': '+182'}[13].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Star of Bombay include Bombay Sapphire[14], a trademark[15], founded in 1987[16].

Why It Matters

Star of Bombay draws 73 Wikipedia views per month (sapphire category, ranking #6 of 8).[2]

Entities named for it include Bombay Sapphire[14], a trademark[15], founded in 1987[16].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . geogallery.si.edu. Retrieved . geogallery.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . geogallery.si.edu. Retrieved . geogallery.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [15] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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