oil

viscous water-insoluble liquid
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oil

Summary

oil is a product[1]. oil ranks in the top 9% of product entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (804 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • oil's instance of is recorded as product[3].
  • oil's instance of is recorded as commodity[4].
  • oil is a type of raw material[5].
  • oil is a type of liquid[6].
  • oil's Commons category is recorded as Oil[7].
  • oil's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oils[8].
  • oil's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[9].
  • oil's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[10].
  • oil's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • oil's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[12].
  • oil's different from is recorded as fat[13].
  • oil's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002985[14].
  • oil's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include product[3] and commodity[4]. Recorded subclass of include raw material[5] and liquid[6].

Influence

Things named for oil include linoleum[16], a composite material[17]; Oil City[18], a city of Pennsylvania[19], in United States[20], founded in 1824[21]; Oildale[22], a census-designated place in the United States[23], in United States[24]; abura-age[25], a type of food or dish[26]; Biei[27], a town of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1915[30]; and Neftegorsk[31], a city or town[32], in Russia[33], founded in 1960[34].

Why It Matters

oil ranks in the top 9% of product entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (804 views/month).[2] oil has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] oil is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for oil include linoleum[16], a composite material[17]; Oil City[18], a city of Pennsylvania[19], in United States[20], founded in 1824[21]; Oildale[22], a census-designated place in the United States[23], in United States[24]; abura-age[25], a type of food or dish[26]; Biei[27], a town of Japan[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1915[30]; and Neftegorsk[31], a city or town[32], in Russia[33], founded in 1960[34].

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] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from fat
    Subclass of raw material, liquid
    Aliases
    Instance of
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5799, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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