rock

naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids
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rock

Summary

rock ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,279 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • rock is made of rock forming minerals[2].
  • rock is made of mineral[3].
  • rock is a type of natural material[4].
  • rock is a type of Q141223449[5].
  • rock is used for aggregate[6].
  • rock's Commons category is recorded as Rocks[7].
  • rock is the opposite of soil[8].
  • rock's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rocks[9].
  • rock's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as natural=rock[10].
  • rock's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as seamark:type=rock[11].
  • rock's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • rock's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • rock's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[14].
  • rock's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • rock's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[16].
  • rock's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox rock[17].
  • rock's has characteristic is recorded as chemical composition[18].
  • rock's has characteristic is recorded as texture[19].
  • rock's has characteristic is recorded as permeability[20].
  • rock's equivalent class is recorded as http://loop3d.org/GSO/ontology/2020/1/rockmaterial/Rock[21].
  • rock's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#rock[22].
  • rock's equivalent class is recorded as http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#Rock[23].
  • rock's different from is recorded as rock[24].
  • rock's different from is recorded as stone[25].
  • rock's studied by is recorded as petrology[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include natural material[4] and Q141223449[5]. rock is the opposite of soil[8].

Use and Application

rock is used for aggregate[6].

Influence

Things named for rock include rock-paper-scissors[27], a simultaneous game[28] and rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock[29], a game[30].

Why It Matters

rock ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,279 views/month).[1] rock has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] rock is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for rock include rock-paper-scissors[27], a simultaneous game[28] and rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock[29], a game[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . usgs.gov. usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . usgs.gov. usgs.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Q141222183. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Q141311859. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . Q141247525. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . 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. 6d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Environment ontology id → 00001995
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3859]]: 00001995, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/143354272|rock (#143354272)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5484|Environment Ontology ID]] "
  2. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://loop3d.org/GSO/ontology/2020/1/rockmaterial/Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#rock, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#Rock
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arc', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'atj', 'az',
    Sitelink count → 176
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#Rock"
  3. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Punjabipedia id → ਚਟਾਨ; %E0%A8%B6ਿਲਾ; %E0%A8%B6ੈਲ
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7820]]: ਚਟਾਨ; ਸ਼ਿਲਾ; ਸ਼ੈਲ"
  4. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://loop3d.org/GSO/ontology/2020/1/rockmaterial/Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#rock, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#Rock
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#rock"
  5. 5w ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → natural material, Q141223449
    Equivalent class → http://loop3d.org/GSO/ontology/2020/1/rockmaterial/Rock, http://www.igsint.com/ontology/Lithology#rock, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#Rock
    Different from → rock, stone
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q22731]]"
  6. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → natural material, Q141223449
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q141222936]]"
  7. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → South Savo, Grozny
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  8. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → in camera
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q321568, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  9. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → rocks
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: rocks, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289964510|rocks (#289964510)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  10. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0294089-horniny
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0294089-horniny, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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