tar pit

Summary

tar pit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (587 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• tar pit's image is recorded as Mother-of-the-Lake.jpg^[2].
• tar pit's subclass of is recorded as landform^[3].
• tar pit's Commons category is recorded as Asphalt lakes^[4].
• tar pit's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01gmrj^[5].
• tar pit's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Asphalt lakes^[6].
• tar pit's has characteristic is recorded as rock asphalt^[7].
• tar pit's GeoNames feature code is recorded as T.ASPH^[8].
• tar pit's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000165^[9].
• tar pit's schematic is recorded as Tar Pit Formation Image.png^[10].
• tar pit's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776634105^[11].
• tar pit's KBpedia ID is recorded as AsphaltLake^[12].
• tar pit's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09477874-n^[13].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for tar pit include Turing tarpit^[14].

Why It Matters

tar pit ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (587 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[15] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[16]

Entities named for it include Turing tarpit^[14].