governor

high ranked governing official in a state
Intangible public_office Q132050
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Summary

governor is a public office[1]. governor ranks in the top 9% of public office entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,320 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: job title[3], profession[4], position[5]
  • Subclass of: ruler[6]
  • Said to be the same as: castellan[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Governors and heads of sub-national entities[8]
  • Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Governor[10]
  • Different from: 知事[11], governor[12]
  • Substitute/deputy/replacement of office/officeholder: lieutenant governor[13]
  • Female form of label: מושלת[14], gobernadora[15], حاكمة الدولة[16], governatrice[17], губернаторка[18], governadora[19], guvernérka[20], Gouverneurin[21], guvernerka[22], gubernatorė[23], حاكمة[24], guvernatoare[25]
  • Male form of label: governatore[26], Gouverneur[27], gubernatorius[28], حاكم[29], guvernator[30]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
  • ISCO-08 occupation class: 1111[32]

Why It Matters

governor has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] governor is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . accademiadellacrusca.it. accademiadellacrusca.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . 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. 22d ago · DarwIn · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 110
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bh', 'bjn', 'bn
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Position holder: Q141572395, using [[User:DarwIn/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 24d ago · Ha2772a · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 10159834-n
    Different from → 知事, governor, governor
    Interlingual index id → i90272
    Wikidata description → high ranked governing official in a state
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: governor"
  3. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → governors
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: governors, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934145|governors (#289934145)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  4. 21w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isco-08 occupation class → 1111
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33365|batch #33365]]: isco inferences from esco"
  5. 21w ago · JhealdBatch · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Esco occupation id → d63789ac-74b5-40e3-b890-685513c38e12
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33143|batch #33143]]: ESCO matches via OpenRefine"
  6. 24w ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Governors and heads of sub-national entities
    Said to be the same as → castellan
    Subclass of → ruler
    Instance of → public office, job title, profession +1
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: governor, #pwb Copy label Add niet gelijk aan (P1889)"
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