box

container (usually cuboidal) with at least one roughly rectangular cross-section
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box

Summary

box ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • box is made of lumber[2].
  • box is made of cardboard[3].
  • box is a type of container[4].
  • box is a type of artificial physical object[5].
  • box's Commons category is recorded as Boxes[6].
  • box's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Boxes[7].
  • box's Commons gallery is recorded as Box[8].
  • box's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[9].
  • box's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • box's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • box's described by source is recorded as Diccionario del español de México[12].
  • box's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • box's shape is recorded as rectangular cuboid[14].
  • box's different from is recorded as box[15].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include container[4] and artificial physical object[5].

Influence

Things named for box include haybox[16].

Why It Matters

box ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (430 views/month).[1] box has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] box is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Entities named for box include haybox[16].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of container, artificial physical object
    Made from material lumber, cardboard
    Topic's main category Category:Boxes
    Subclass of
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5930, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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