katana

Japanese sword, that was used by samurai
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katana

Summary

katana is a weapon family[1]. katana ranks in the top 2% of weapon_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,387 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • katana's image is recorded as Katana, sword (AM 1934.316-14) (II).jpg[3].
  • katana's instance of is recorded as weapon family[4].
  • katana's GND ID is recorded as 4179044-3[5].
  • katana's subclass of is recorded as Japanese sword[6].
  • katana's subclass of is recorded as sword[7].
  • katana's part of is recorded as daishō[8].
  • katana's Commons category is recorded as Katana[9].
  • katana's country of origin is recorded as Japan[10].
  • katana's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 32433[11].
  • katana's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03gv3l5[12].
  • katana's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Katana[13].
  • katana's Commons gallery is recorded as Katana[14].
  • katana's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300386050[15].
  • katana's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 623.441[16].
  • katana's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 355.8241[17].
  • katana's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 739.722[18].
  • katana's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19].
  • katana's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '打刀'}[20].
  • katana's different from is recorded as Katana[21].
  • katana's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/1q5zgy4fn[22].
  • katana's Visual Novel Database ID is recorded as i207[23].
  • katana's Quora topic ID is recorded as Katana[24].
  • katana's Open Library subject ID is recorded as katana[25].
  • katana's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26].
  • katana's Giant Bomb ID is recorded as 3055-690[27].

Body

Geography

katana's part of is recorded as daishō[8].

Designation and Status

katana's instance of is recorded as weapon family[4].

Why It Matters

katana ranks in the top 2% of weapon_family entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,387 views/month).[2] katana has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] katana is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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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