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netball

Summary

netball is a type of sport[1]. netball ranks in the top 8% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,238 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • netball is credited with the discovery of Martina Bergman-Österberg[3].
  • netball's instance of is recorded as type of sport[4].
  • netball is a type of team sport[5].
  • netball is a type of ball game[6].
  • netball's Commons category is recorded as Netball[7].
  • netball's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[8].
  • netball's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Netball[9].
  • netball's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=netball[10].
  • netball's different from is recorded as basketball[11].
  • netball's practiced by is recorded as netballer[12].

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Definition and Type

netball's instance of is recorded as type of sport[4]. Recorded subclass of include team sport[5] and ball game[6].

Why It Matters

netball ranks in the top 8% of type_of_sport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,238 views/month).[2] netball has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] netball is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . 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. 16d ago · Yirba · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Netball
    P14537 → ['z3bg39q', 'z8yvfrd', 'zg8w82p', 'zsx6mnb', 'ztmx2p3']
    Practiced by → netballer
    Instance of → type of sport
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14537]]: z3bg39q, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294227276|Netball (#294227276)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8060|‎BBC Bitesize topics]] "
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