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giant

giant humanoid creature in mythology
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giant
Attributed to Francisco Goya · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

giant ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,242 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: mythic humanoid[2]
  • Commons category: Giants (mythology)[3]
  • Opposite of: dwarf[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Giants[5]
  • Commons gallery: Giants (mythology)[6]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[7], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11]
  • Has characteristic: largeness[12]
  • Different from: giant in a work of fiction[13], div (mythology)[14], Giant[15]
  • Female form of label: великанша[16], velikanka[17]

Why It Matters

giant has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] giant is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Goliath

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Q43424330. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q291424
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 6658
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q291424, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151051012
    Interlingual index id → i86481
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4155, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  3. 21w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Giants
    Has characteristic → largeness
    Local thumb → —
    Factgrid item id → Q1356883
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Wordnet 3.1 synset id: 09511841-n"
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