whistle

instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air
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whistle

Summary

whistle is a type of musical instrument[1]. whistle draws 292 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #82 of 399).[2]

Key Facts

  • whistle's image is recorded as Pea Whistle.jpg[3].
  • whistle's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[4].
  • whistle's GND ID is recorded as 4045493-9[5].
  • whistle's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85048136[6].
  • whistle's subclass of is recorded as open flute with internal duct without fingerholes[7].
  • whistle's subclass of is recorded as sound generator[8].
  • whistle's has use is recorded as signal instrument[9].
  • whistle's has use is recorded as musical instrument[10].
  • whistle's Commons category is recorded as Whistles[11].
  • whistle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0bmqt[12].
  • whistle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0l156k[13].
  • whistle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Whistles[14].
  • whistle's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300042706[15].
  • whistle's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 440355[16].
  • whistle's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0151837[17].
  • whistle's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 3d7aca42-f7a7-46d8-9531-d39841a8aa6d[18].
  • whistle's described by source is recorded as Diccionario del español de México[19].
  • whistle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • whistle's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000307468[21].
  • whistle's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/whistle[22].
  • whistle's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 421.221.11[23].
  • whistle's different from is recorded as Svistok[24].
  • whistle's different from is recorded as police whistle[25].
  • whistle's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04579432-n[26].
  • whistle's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as sifflet[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for whistle include whistleblower[28], an occupation[29].

Why It Matters

whistle draws 292 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #82 of 399).[2] whistle has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] whistle is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for whistle include whistleblower[28], an occupation[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . 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] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_whistle_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{whistle}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/whistle}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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