sandwich

food made with bread and other ingredients
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Summary

sandwich is a type of food or dish[1]. sandwich ranks in the top 3% of type of food or dish entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,389 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich[3]
  • Made from material: food ingredient[4], bread[5], salad[6], meat[7], condiment[8], spread[9]
  • Subclass of: finger food[10], bread dish[11], bánh[12]
  • Commons category: Sandwiches[13]
  • Said to be the same as: Q111907435[14], Pausenbrot[15]
  • Unicode character: 🥪[16]
  • Country of origin: England[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sandwiches[18]
  • Commons gallery: Sandwich[19]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: cuisine=sandwich[20]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22]
  • Native label: sandwich[23]
  • Different from: Butterbrot[24], open sandwich[25], sandwich[26]
  • Hashtag: sandwich[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[28]
  • Social media followers: 163,294[29]
  • P14692: Wolfskirchen[30]

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Influence

Things named for sandwich include hamburger[31], a type of food or dish[32] and squeeze theorem[33], a theorem[34].

Why It Matters

sandwich has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] sandwich is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for sandwich include hamburger[31], a type of food or dish[32] and squeeze theorem[33], a theorem[34].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [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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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. 18d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'als', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'ast', 'atj', 'az', 'azb', 'ba',
    Gnd id → 4124109-5
    Wikidata description → food made with bread and other ingredients
    Sitelink count → 115
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Wolfskirchen
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 14w ago · Jeb · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Q111907435, Pausenbrot
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Said to be the same as: Pausenbrot"
  4. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → sandwiches
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: sandwiches, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961888|sandwiches (#289961888)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0270181-sendvice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0270181-sendvice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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