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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979–1992 series of five books by Douglas Adams
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Summary

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a literary pentalogy[1]. It draws 3,639 Wikipedia views per month (literary_pentalogy category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy authored Eoin Colfer[3].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's instance of is recorded as literary pentalogy[4].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's instance of is recorded as novel series[5].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's genre is recorded as science fiction comedy[6].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's genre is recorded as humorous fiction[7].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's genre is recorded as science fiction[8].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 182157875[9].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2010139811[10].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13173759h[11].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Commons category is recorded as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[12].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[14].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[15].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe[16].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as Life, the Universe and Everything[17].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish[18].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as Mostly Harmless[19].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's has part is recorded as And Another Thing...[20].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's publication date is recorded as +1979-00-00T00:00:00Z[21].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07q2d[22].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's characters is recorded as Arthur Dent[23].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's characters is recorded as Trillian[24].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's characters is recorded as Zaphod Beeblebrox[25].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's characters is recorded as Marvin the Paranoid Android[26].
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's characters is recorded as Ford Prefect[27].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include literary pentalogy[4] and novel series[5].

Why It Matters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy draws 3,639 Wikipedia views per month (literary_pentalogy category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Eoin Colfer The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . 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.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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