About: Sky Whirl

An Entity of Type: Ferris wheel, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Sky Whirl was the name of two amusement rides which featured triple Ferris wheels. Both debuted in 1976 at the California's Great America (in Santa Clara, California) and Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, Illinois) amusement parks. The ride in Santa Clara closed in 1997, and the ride in Gurnee closed in 2000. Two additional triple Ferris wheels were later built for the Seibu-en and Lotte World parks in Japan (operating between 1985 and 2004) and South Korea (1989–97), respectively. All four rides were manufactured by Waagner-Biro and brokered by Intamin.

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	Sky Whirl was the name of two amusement rides which featured triple Ferris wheels. Both debuted in 1976 at the California's Great America (in Santa Clara, California) and Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, Illinois) amusement parks. The ride in Santa Clara closed in 1997, and the ride in Gurnee closed in 2000. Two additional triple Ferris wheels were later built for the Seibu-en and Lotte World parks in Japan (operating between 1985 and 2004) and South Korea (1989–97), respectively. All four rides were manufactured by Waagner-Biro and brokered by Intamin. (en)
dbo:location	dbr:California's_Great_America
dbo:thumbnail	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Sky_Whirl_2.jpg?width=300
dbo:type	dbr:Ferris_wheel
dbo:wikiPageID	2102676 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	13476 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1114139508 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:California's_Great_America dbr:Amusement_park dbc:Amusement_rides_that_closed_in_1997 dbr:Santa_Clara,_California dbr:Beverly_Hills_Cop_III dbc:California's_Great_America dbr:Invertigo dbr:Giant_Inverted_Boomerang dbr:Giant_Wheel_(Hersheypark) dbr:Amusement_ride dbr:Lotte_World dbc:Amusement_rides_introduced_in_1976 dbc:Amusement_rides_that_closed_in_2000 dbr:Six_Flags_AstroWorld dbr:Six_Flags_Great_America dbc:Former_Ferris_wheels dbr:Tokorozawa,_Saitama dbc:Six_Flags_Great_America dbr:Ferris_wheel dbr:Gurnee,_Illinois dbr:Hersheypark dbc:Six_Flags_attractions dbr:Intamin dbr:Randall_Duell dbr:Seibu-en dbr:Seoul,_South_Korea dbr:Waagner-Biro dbr:Triple_wheel dbr:File:Sky_Whirl_3.jpg
dbp:caption	Sky Whirl (en)
dbp:closed	1997 (xsd:integer) 2000 (xsd:integer) 2004 (xsd:integer)
dbp:designer	dbr:Intamin
dbp:heightFt	105 (xsd:integer)
dbp:location	California's Great America (en) Six Flags Great America (en) Lotte World (en) Seibu-en (en)
dbp:manufacturer	Waagner-Biro (en)
dbp:model	Tree Triple Wheel (en)
dbp:name	Sky Whirl (en)
dbp:opened	1985 (xsd:integer) 1989 (xsd:integer) 1976-03-21 (xsd:date) 1976-05-29 (xsd:date)
dbp:replacement	dbr:Invertigo dbr:Giant_Inverted_Boomerang
dbp:ridersPerVehicle	6 (xsd:integer)
dbp:siteareaSqm	2290 (xsd:integer)
dbp:status	Removed (en)
dbp:type	dbr:Ferris_wheel
dbp:vehicleType	Enclosed cage (en)
dbp:vehicles	36 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Clear dbt:Commons_category dbt:Convert dbt:Infobox_attraction dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:Start_date dbt:SFGrAm_Coasters dbt:Intamin dbt:California's_Great_America dbt:Ferris_wheel
dcterms:subject	dbc:Amusement_rides_that_closed_in_1997 dbc:California's_Great_America dbc:Amusement_rides_introduced_in_1976 dbc:Amusement_rides_that_closed_in_2000 dbc:Former_Ferris_wheels dbc:Six_Flags_Great_America dbc:Six_Flags_attractions
gold:hypernym	dbr:Rides
rdf:type	owl:Thing yago:WikicatAmusementRidesIntroducedIn1976 yago:WikicatSixFlagsAttractions dbo:ArchitecturalStructure yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:Act100030358 yago:Action100037396 yago:Attraction106615561 yago:Change100191142 yago:Drive100307631 yago:Event100029378 yago:Journey100306426 yago:Motion100279835 yago:PsychologicalFeature100023100 yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:AmusementParkAttraction dbo:RollerCoaster yago:Show106619065 yago:SocialEvent107288639 yago:Travel100295701
rdfs:comment	Sky Whirl was the name of two amusement rides which featured triple Ferris wheels. Both debuted in 1976 at the California's Great America (in Santa Clara, California) and Six Flags Great America (in Gurnee, Illinois) amusement parks. The ride in Santa Clara closed in 1997, and the ride in Gurnee closed in 2000. Two additional triple Ferris wheels were later built for the Seibu-en and Lotte World parks in Japan (operating between 1985 and 2004) and South Korea (1989–97), respectively. All four rides were manufactured by Waagner-Biro and brokered by Intamin. (en)
rdfs:label	Sky Whirl (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:Sky Whirl yago-res:Sky Whirl dbpedia-commons:Sky Whirl wikidata:Sky Whirl dbpedia-hu:Sky Whirl https://global.dbpedia.org/id/KBWs
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Sky_Whirl?oldid=1114139508&ns=0
foaf:depiction	wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Sky_Whirl_3.jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Sky_Whirl_2.jpg
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Sky_Whirl
foaf:name	Sky Whirl (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of	dbr:Tree_Triple_Wheel dbr:Triple_Giant_Wheel dbr:Triple_Tree_Wheel dbr:Triple_Wheel
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:California's_Great_America dbr:List_of_former_Six_Flags_Great_America_attractions dbr:Beverly_Hills_Cop_III dbr:List_of_closed_rides_and_attractions dbr:Six_Flags_Great_America dbr:Ferris_wheel dbr:List_of_Intamin_rides dbr:Intamin dbr:Tree_Triple_Wheel dbr:Triple_Giant_Wheel dbr:Triple_Tree_Wheel dbr:Triple_Wheel
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Sky_Whirl