parable

short didactic story which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles
Intangible literary_genre Q208555
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parable

Summary

parable is a literary genre[1]. parable ranks in the top 9% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • parable's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • parable's GND ID is recorded as 4075855-2[4].
  • parable's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh00006882[5].
  • parable's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11976366h[6].
  • parable's subclass of is recorded as narrative[7].
  • parable's subclass of is recorded as folklore[8].
  • parable's subclass of is recorded as metaphor[9].
  • parable's subclass of is recorded as analogy[10].
  • parable's Commons category is recorded as Parables[11].
  • parable's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Jules78120-Parabole (rhétorique).wav[12].
  • parable's said to be the same as is recorded as pritcha[13].
  • parable's said to be the same as is recorded as Q25453447[14].
  • parable's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 31118[15].
  • parable's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/013d41[16].
  • parable's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph238389[17].
  • parable's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parables[18].
  • parable's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX528753[19].
  • parable's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX528753[20].
  • parable's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300185342[21].
  • parable's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 809.3[22].
  • parable's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0129524[23].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation (2007 ed.)[24].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[25].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[26].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for parable include Doubt: A Parable[28], a literary work[29], written by John Patrick Shanley[30].

Why It Matters

parable ranks in the top 9% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (469 views/month).[2] parable has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] parable is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for parable include Doubt: A Parable[28], a literary work[29], written by John Patrick Shanley[30].

References

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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] . lingualibre.fr. lingualibre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Spain open data portal. Retrieved . bne.es. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . 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. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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