levee

ridge or wall to hold back water
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levee

Summary

levee ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (997 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • levee's image is recorded as GretnaLevee.jpg[2].
  • levee's GND ID is recorded as 4255921-2[3].
  • levee's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85076313[4].
  • levee's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85038003[5].
  • levee's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11932750f[6].
  • levee's location is recorded as bank[7].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as flood control structure[8].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as civil engineering construction[9].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as dam from granular material[10].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as fixed-crest weir[11].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as hydraulic structure[12].
  • levee's subclass of is recorded as levee[13].
  • levee's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00572756[14].
  • levee's has use is recorded as protection[15].
  • levee's has use is recorded as flood control[16].
  • levee's Commons category is recorded as Dikes[17].
  • levee's pronunciation audio is recorded as De-Deich.ogg[18].
  • levee's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40802[19].
  • levee's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0btcr[20].
  • levee's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph172870[21].
  • levee's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dikes[22].
  • levee's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX526479[23].
  • levee's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300006156[24].
  • levee's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300170882[25].
  • levee's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 627.42[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for levee include Amsterdam[27], a municipality of the Netherlands[28], in Netherlands[29], founded in 1812[30], headquartered in Amsterdam[31].

Why It Matters

levee ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (997 views/month).[1] levee has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] levee is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for levee include Amsterdam[27], a municipality of the Netherlands[28], in Netherlands[29], founded in 1812[30], headquartered in Amsterdam[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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