dragon

legendary winged, fire-breathing reptile
Place mythical_animal Q7559
dragon
Katsushika Hokusai · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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dragon

Summary

dragon is a mythical animal[1]. dragon ranks in the top 5% of mythical_animal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,045 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • dragon's instance of is recorded as mythical animal[3].
  • dragon is a type of mythical creature[4].
  • dragon is a type of mythical animal[5].
  • dragon's Commons category is recorded as Dragons[6].
  • dragon's Unicode character is recorded as 🐉[7].
  • dragon's Unicode character is recorded as 🐲[8].
  • dragon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dragons[9].
  • dragon's Commons gallery is recorded as Dragon[10].
  • dragon's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Q42902135[11].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[12].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[15].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed.[18].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[21].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[22].
  • dragon's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[23].
  • dragon's partially coincident with is recorded as fire-breathing monster[24].
  • dragon's topic has template is recorded as Template:Dragons[25].
  • dragon's has characteristic is recorded as fire-breathing monster[26].
  • dragon's has characteristic is recorded as fire breathing[27].

Body

Designation and Status

dragon's instance of is recorded as mythical animal[3].

Cultural Significance

Things named for dragon include Dungeons & Dragons[28], a tabletop role-playing game[29], written by Gary Gygax[30]; dragoon[31]; Bel and the Dragon[32], a chapter of the Bible[33]; Four Asian Tigers[34], a geopolitical group[35]; Chunichi Dragons[36], a baseball team[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1936[39], headquartered in Aichi Prefecture[40]; dragon curve[41]; greater weever[42], a taxon[43]; and here be dragons[44], a Latin phrase[45].

Why It Matters

dragon ranks in the top 5% of mythical_animal entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22,045 views/month).[2] dragon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[46] dragon is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[47]

Entities named for dragon include Dungeons & Dragons[28], a tabletop role-playing game[29], written by Gary Gygax[30]; dragoon[31]; Bel and the Dragon[32], a chapter of the Bible[33]; Four Asian Tigers[34], a geopolitical group[35]; Chunichi Dragons[36], a baseball team[37], in Japan[38], founded in 1936[39], headquartered in Aichi Prefecture[40]; and dragon curve[41].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . 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
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [41] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [42] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [45] . 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. [46] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [47] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 19d ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic fire-breathing monster, fire breathing
    Partially coincident with fire-breathing monster
    Image Hokusai Dragon.jpg
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P9675]]: 149461, Add qualifier to All the Tropes article ID `Dragon`"
  2. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag dragons
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: dragons, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289932371|dragons (#289932371)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  3. 9w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id σ-finite measure
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q291430, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 9w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia tatarica (ru) online id razdely/narody/tatary/verovaniya-i-mifologiya/mifologicheski
    Jewish encyclopedia id 5304
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 5304, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167477765|DRAGON (#167477765)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix'n"
  5. 11w ago · Frhdkazan · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia tatarica (tt) online id razdely/narody/tatary/verovaniya-i-mifologiya/otdelnye-perso
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8373]]: razdely/narody/tatary/verovaniya-i-mifologiya/otdelnye-personazhi-poverya/azhdaa"
  6. 14w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0008725-draci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008725-draci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has characteristic fire-breathing monster, fire breathing
    Subclass of mythical creature, mythical animal
    Instance of mythical animal
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 18214, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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