cake

baked dessert
Thing general Q13276
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Summary

cake ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,012 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Made from material: sugar[2], flour[3], milk[4], egg as food[5]
  • Subclass of: torta[6], bakers' confection[7]
  • Commons category: Cakes[8]
  • Unicode character: 🍰[9], 🎂[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cakes[11]
  • Commons gallery: Cake[12]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13]
  • Different from: tart[14], biscuit[15], pastel[16], torte[17], pie[18], Cake[19]
  • Wikidata usage instructions: Instances of this class are actual cakes. Cake types are subclasses.[20]
  • Hashtag: cake[21]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02000063[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]

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Influence

Things named for cake include mattentaart[24], a pastry[25], in Belgium[26].

Why It Matters

cake has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] cake is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for cake include mattentaart[24], a pastry[25], in Belgium[26].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
  22. [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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . 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. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C4842
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C4842, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2HOp4V
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → cake
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cake, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289922005|cake (#289922005)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 1251
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 1251, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107283537|cakes (#107283537)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical "
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