ambassador

highest diplomatic rank
Thing diplomatic_rank Q121998
ambassador
Hans Holbein the Younger · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

ambassador is a diplomatic rank[1]. ambassador ranks in the top 8% of diplomatic rank entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,592 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of position[3], title of authority[4]
  • Main regulatory text: Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations[5]
  • Subclass of: head of mission[6], plenipotentiary[7]
  • Part of: diplomatic corps[8], embassy[9]
  • Commons category: Ambassadors[10]
  • Opposite of: non-diplomatic ambassador[11]
  • Honorific prefix: Ambassador[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ambassadors[13]
  • ISCO-88 occupation class: 1120[14]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[15], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17], The New Student's Reference Work[18]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Ambassador[19]
  • Different from: minister plenipotentiary[20], consul[21], permanent representative[22]
  • Properties for this type: P39[23], P106[24]
  • Female form of label: vyslankyně[25], πρέσβειρα[26], embajadora[27], ambassadrice[28], ambasciatrice[29], Botschafterin[30], ambasadorino[31], سفيرة[32], veleposlanica[33], שגרירה[34], ambaixadora[35], embaxadora[36], амбасадарка[37], посолка[38]
  • Male form of label: ambasciatore[39], ambassadeur[40], ambasadorius[41], ambasador[42], Botschafter[43]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[44]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Categoria:Categorie intitolate ad ambasciatori[45]

Why It Matters

ambassador has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] ambassador is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3sUQLx
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0261335-velvyslanci', '0206359-velvyslankyne']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0261335-velvyslanci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  3. 22w ago · Piastu · 2026-05-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → minister plenipotentiary, consul, permanent representative
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Q139794784"
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