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Kolkata Knight Riders

cricket team in the Indian Premier League
Organization sports_team Q1156894
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Summary

Kolkata Knight Riders is a sports team[1]. It ranks in the top 0.16% of sports team entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,843 views/month, #1 of 642).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: India[3]
  • Home venue: Eden Gardens[4]
  • League or competition: Indian Premier League[5]
  • Owned by: Shah Rukh Khan[6], Red Chillies Entertainment[7], Juhi Chawla[8], Jay Mehta[9]
  • Headquarters location: Kolkata[10]
  • Head coach: Chandrakant Pandit[11]
  • Part of: Indian Premier League[12]
  • Commons category: Kolkata Knight Riders[13]
  • Inception: 2008[14]
  • Team captain: Eoin Morgan[15]
  • Sport: cricket[16]
  • Official website: http://www.kkr.in/[17]
  • Category for members of a team: Category:Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers[18]
  • Social media followers: 4,231,950[19], 4,113,490[20], 4,778,779[21], 5,168,816[22]

Why It Matters

Kolkata Knight Riders has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

India Juhi Chawla Shah Rukh Khan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Vishnu Ang · 2026-10-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+4231950'}, {'amount': '+4113490'}, {'amount': '+4778779'} +1
    Inception → —
    Part of → —
    Home venue → Eden Gardens
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ Category for members of a team: Category:Kolkata Knight Riders cricketers"
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