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White-Jacket

novel by Herman Melville
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Summary

White-Jacket is a written work[1]. White-Jacket ranks in the top 7% of written work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (512 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: Herman Melville[3]
  • Genre: adventure fiction[4]
  • Follows: Redburn[5]
  • Followed by: Moby-Dick[6]
  • Commons category: White-Jacket[7]
  • Language of work or name: English[8]
  • Country of origin: United States[9]
  • Inception: 1849[10]
  • Publication date: 1850[11]
  • Title: White-Jacket[12]
  • Subtitle: or, The World in a Man-of-War[13]
  • Copyright status: public domain[14]
  • Set in environment: ship[15]

Why It Matters

White-Jacket has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] White-Jacket is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Herman Melville Moby-Dick public domain ship United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_white-jacket_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{White-Jacket}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/white-jacket}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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  1. 1d ago · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1849-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → written work
    Set in environment → ship
    Inception → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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