The Ashes

Test cricket series played between Australia and England, the oldest known cricket league
Event sports_competition Q725151
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The Ashes

Summary

The Ashes is a sports competition[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of sports_competition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (842 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Ashes received the The Ashes urn[3].
  • The Ashes is in the country of Australia[4].
  • The Ashes is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • The Ashes's image is recorded as Ashes Urn.jpg[6].
  • The Ashes's instance of is recorded as sports competition[7].
  • The Ashes's instance of is recorded as recurring sporting event[8].
  • The Ashes's Commons category is recorded as The Ashes[9].
  • +1882-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of The Ashes[10].
  • The Ashes's sport is recorded as cricket[11].
  • The Ashes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0m9m[12].
  • The Ashes's organizer is recorded as International Cricket Council[13].
  • The Ashes's topic's main category is recorded as Category:The Ashes[14].
  • The Ashes's event interval is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+2'}[15].
  • The Ashes's The Guardian topic ID is recorded as sport/ashes[16].
  • The Ashes's Quora topic ID is recorded as The-Ashes[17].
  • The Ashes's Lex ID is recorded as The_Ashes[18].
  • The Ashes's ABC News topic ID is recorded as ashes[19].

Body

Recognition

The Ashes received the it urn[3].

Why It Matters

The Ashes ranks in the top 1% of sports_competition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (842 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

FAQs

What awards did The Ashes receive?

Honors received include The Ashes urn[3].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] . bbc.co.uk. bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-ashes_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The Ashes}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-ashes}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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