United States Congress

bicameral legislature of the United States
Organization bicameral_legislature Q11268
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The United States Congress is a bicameral legislature[1]. It was founded on March 4, 1789.

United States Congress

Summary

United States Congress is a bicameral legislature[1]. It ranks in the top 0.89% of bicameral_legislature entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,716 views/month, #1 of 112).[2]

Key Facts

  • United States Congress is located in Washington, D.C.[3].
  • United States Congress is in the country of United States[4].
  • United States Congress's instance of is recorded as bicameral legislature[5].
  • United States Congress took place at United States Capitol[6].
  • United States Congress's child organization or unit is recorded as United States Government Publishing Office[7].
  • United States Congress's child organization or unit is recorded as Office of Congressional Workplace Rights[8].
  • United States Congress's child organization or unit is recorded as United States Congress Office of the Attending Physician[9].
  • United States Congress is part of Federal Government of the United States[10].
  • United States Congress's Commons category is recorded as United States Congress[11].
  • United States Congress comprises United States House of Representatives[12].
  • United States Congress comprises United States Senate[13].
  • March 4, 1789 marks the founding of United States Congress[14].
  • United States Congress's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 38.88972222, 'lon': -77.00888889}[15].
  • United States Congress's official website is recorded as https://www.congress.gov[16].
  • United States Congress's topic's main category is recorded as Category:United States Congress[17].
  • United States Congress's Commons gallery is recorded as United States Congress[18].
  • United States Congress's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as United States[19].
  • United States Congress's number of seats is recorded as {'amount': '+535'}[20].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[22].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[23].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[26].
  • United States Congress's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Fünfzehnter Band[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: f2d3daba-65e9-47ce-855d-aa159609ba69[29]

Body

Founding

March 4, 1789 marks the founding of United States Congress[14].

Identity

United States Congress is part of Federal Government of the United States[10].

Operations

Subsidiaries include United States Government Publishing Office[7], a state publisher[30], in United States[31], founded in 1861[32]; Office of Congressional Workplace Rights[8], a legislative branch agency[33], in United States[34], founded in 1995[35]; and United States Congress Office of the Attending Physician[9], a government agency[36], in United States[37].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for United States Congress include Congressional Airport[38], an airport[39], in United States[40].

Why It Matters

United States Congress ranks in the top 0.89% of bicameral_legislature entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,716 views/month, #1 of 112).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Works attributed to it include United States Statutes at Large[43], a serial[44], founded in 1845[45]; Congressional Record[46], an official publication[47], in United States[48], founded in 1873[49]; and Wilderness Act[50], an Act of Congress in the United States[51], in United States[52], founded in 1964[53]. Entities named for it include Congressional Airport[38], an airport[39], in United States[40].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . Union List of Artist Names. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [43] . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [50] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Has part(s) United States House of Representatives, United States Senate
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