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Summary

fingerprint is a biometric identifier[1]. fingerprint draws 7,145 Wikipedia views per month (biometric identifier category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer[3]
  • Subclass of: impression[4]
  • Commons category: Fingerprints[5]
  • Unicode character: 🫆[6]
  • Has part(s): papillary line[7]
  • Has cause: finger[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fingerprints[9]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[11]
  • Studied by: dermatoglyphics[12]

Why It Matters

fingerprint has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] fingerprint is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Salil Prabhakar

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . unicode.org. Retrieved . unicode.org. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). fingerprint. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fingerprint
MLA “fingerprint.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 20 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/fingerprint.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fingerprint_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fingerprint}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fingerprint}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-20}}
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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. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0007028-otisky-prstu
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0007028-otisky-prstu, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Has part(s) → papillary line
    Subclass of → impression
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 25089, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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