white elephant

Summary

white elephant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (216 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• white elephant's image is recorded as RoyalWhiteElephant.jpg^[2].
• white elephant's subclass of is recorded as elephant^[3].
• white elephant's subclass of is recorded as albinism^[4].
• white elephant's Commons category is recorded as White elephants^[5].
• white elephant's color is recorded as white^[6].
• white elephant's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09kggh^[7].
• white elephant's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02506827-n^[8].
• white elephant's Pixiv Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 白象^[9].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for white elephant include Milky Way^[10], a barred spiral galaxy^[11] and it^[12], a phraseme^[13].

Why It Matters

white elephant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (216 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[14] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[15]

Entities named for it include Milky Way^[10], a barred spiral galaxy^[11] and it^[12], a phraseme^[13].