thumbscrew

torture instrument for crushing digits
Product torture_instrument Q1172972
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thumbscrew

Summary

thumbscrew is a torture instrument[1]. thumbscrew draws 396 Wikipedia views per month (torture_instrument category, ranking #8 of 29).[2]

Key Facts

  • thumbscrew's image is recorded as 16XX Daumenschraube anagoria.JPG[3].
  • thumbscrew's instance of is recorded as torture instrument[4].
  • thumbscrew's subclass of is recorded as appliance[5].
  • thumbscrew's has use is recorded as torture[6].
  • thumbscrew's Commons category is recorded as Thumbscrews (torture)[7].
  • thumbscrew's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01b5qg[8].
  • thumbscrew's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300391002[9].
  • thumbscrew's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • thumbscrew's described by source is recorded as Die Anwendung der gebräuchlichsten Folter- und Strafwerkzeuge[11].
  • thumbscrew's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Human rights[12].
  • thumbscrew's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 10070[13].
  • thumbscrew's TOPCMB ID is recorded as anjinhos[14].
  • thumbscrew's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04438681-n[15].
  • thumbscrew's Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID is recorded as THUMBSCREW[16].
  • thumbscrew's FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID is recorded as 97426[17].

Why It Matters

thumbscrew draws 396 Wikipedia views per month (torture_instrument category, ranking #8 of 29).[2] thumbscrew has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] thumbscrew is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). thumbscrew. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/thumbscrew
MLA “thumbscrew.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/thumbscrew.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_thumbscrew_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{thumbscrew}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/thumbscrew}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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