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oracle

in classical antiquity, person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future
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oracle

Summary

oracle is an occupation[1]. oracle ranks in the top 6% of occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,499 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • oracle's instance of is recorded as occupation[3].
  • oracle's instance of is recorded as sacred place[4].
  • oracle is a type of fortune teller[5].
  • oracle's Commons category is recorded as Oracles[6].
  • oracle's patron saint is recorded as Agabus[7].
  • oracle's field of this occupation is recorded as Greek divination[8].
  • oracle's said to be the same as is recorded as fortune teller[9].
  • oracle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oracles[10].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as Description of Greece[14].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • oracle's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Dritter Band[16].
  • oracle's different from is recorded as Oracle[17].
  • oracle's different from is recorded as Orakel[18].
  • oracle dates from the classical antiquity[19].
  • oracle's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'אורקלית'}[20].
  • oracle's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Orakel'}[21].
  • oracle's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'orakolino'}[22].
  • oracle's male form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'وسيط روحي، كاهن'}[23].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for oracle include Sporcle[24], a website[25], founded in 2007[26].

Why It Matters

oracle ranks in the top 6% of occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,499 views/month).[2] oracle has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] oracle is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for oracle include Sporcle[24], a website[25], founded in 2007[26].

Related Entities

Agabus

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . 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. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → occupation, sacred place
    Said to be the same as → fortune teller
    Different from → Oracle, Orakel
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 22850, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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