gemstone

piece of mineral used to make jewelry
Product stone Q83437
gemstone
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gemstone

Summary

gemstone is a stone[1]. gemstone ranks in the top 9% of stone entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,348 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • gemstone's instance of is recorded as stone[3].
  • gemstone is a type of mineral[4].
  • gemstone is used for jewelry[5].
  • gemstone is used for decoration[6].
  • gemstone's Commons category is recorded as Gemstones[7].
  • gemstone's Unicode character is recorded as 💎[8].
  • gemstone's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Gemstones[9].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[10].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[11].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[15].
  • gemstone's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • gemstone's topic has template is recorded as Template:Gemstone[17].
  • gemstone's studied by is recorded as gemology[18].
  • gemstone's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Gemstones[19].
  • gemstone's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry[20].
  • gemstone's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mining[21].
  • gemstone's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Geology[22].
  • gemstone's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Materials[23].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for gemstone include opal[24], a mineral species[25] and GemCraft[26], a video game[27].

Why It Matters

gemstone ranks in the top 9% of stone entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,348 views/month).[2] gemstone has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] gemstone is known by 84 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for gemstone include opal[24], a mineral species[25] and GemCraft[26], a video game[27].

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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . 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. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → gems
    Sitelink count → 99
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'ba', 'bcl', 'bn', 'ca', 'cdo', 'cs', 'c
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: gems, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929612|gems (#289929612)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → AMV Makaria Bonn
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 6574
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295362, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 11w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Gemstones, WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry, WikiProject Mining +2
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P459]]: [[Q1266546]], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260984|batch #260984]]"
  4. 14w ago · Treisijs · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Gemstones, WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry, WikiProject Mining +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6104]]: [[Q137763594]]"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0240287-drahe-kameny, 0349590-drahokamy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0240287-drahe-kameny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  6. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 11152, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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