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Summary

canon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (696 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • canon's subclass of is recorded as canon[2].
  • canon's subclass of is recorded as series of creative works[3].
  • canon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03b8sq[4].
  • canon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Canons (fiction)[5].
  • canon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/canon-sacred-literature[6].
  • canon's has characteristic is recorded as canonicity[7].
  • canon's different from is recorded as canonicity[8].
  • canon's does not have part is recorded as fanon[9].
  • canon's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/Canon[10].
  • canon's Oxford Classical Dictionary ID is recorded as 1342[11].
  • canon's Fanlore article ID is recorded as Canon[12].

Why It Matters

canon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (696 views/month).[1] canon has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] canon is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . tvtropes.org. Retrieved . tvtropes.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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