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Great Big Sea

Canadian folk rock band
Organization musical_group Q1424576
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Summary

Great Big Sea is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,468 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: Celtic rock[3]
  • Record label: Warner Music Canada[4]
  • Discography: Great Big Sea discography[5]
  • Commons category: Great Big Sea[6]
  • Country of origin: Canada[7]
  • Has part(s): Alan Doyle[8]
  • Inception: 1993[9]
  • Official website: http://www.greatbigsea.com/[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Great Big Sea[11]
  • Topic has template: Template:Great Big Sea[12]
  • Start of work period: 1993[13]
  • P14443: 95971[14]

Why It Matters

Great Big Sea has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15]

Related Entities

Canada

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] ↑ . musik-sammler.de. musik-sammler.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17h ago · DragonflySixtyseven · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['bg', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'pt', 'sv']
    Topic has template → Template:Great Big Sea
    Genre → —
    Start of work period → +1993-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14443: 95971"
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