telephone number

unique sequence of digits assigned to a telephone subscription
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telephone number

Summary

telephone number ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,121 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • telephone number is a type of nominal number[2].
  • telephone number is a type of network address[3].
  • telephone number is a type of personal data[4].
  • telephone number is a type of identifier[5].
  • telephone number's Commons category is recorded as Telephone numbers[6].
  • 1879 marks the founding of telephone number[7].
  • telephone number's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Telephone numbers[8].
  • telephone number's facet of is recorded as contact point[9].
  • telephone number's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/phone-number[10].
  • telephone number's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1329[11].
  • telephone number's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Cell[12].
  • telephone number's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#Voice[13].
  • telephone number's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C40978[14].
  • telephone number's dummy value is recorded as +1-999-555-9999[15].
  • telephone number's dummy value is recorded as +1-212-664-7665[16].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include nominal number[2], network address[3], personal data[4], and identifier[5].

Origins

1879 marks the founding of telephone number[7].

Why It Matters

telephone number ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,121 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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