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pointer

solid rod used to point to things
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pointer
Marion S. Trikosko · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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pointer

Summary

pointer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pointer's image is recorded as Robert McNamera pointing to a map of Vietnam at a press conference, 1965.JPG[2].
  • pointer's subclass of is recorded as stick[3].
  • pointer's has use is recorded as pointing[4].
  • pointer's Commons category is recorded as Pointers (rods)[5].
  • pointer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ff5t8[6].
  • pointer's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 44561[7].

Why It Matters

pointer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1] pointer has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] pointer is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

pointing device

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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