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

Kryptonite is an Allegion-owned brand of bicycle lock for securing a bicycle to a pole or other fixture, when the owner wants to leave the bicycle in a public place. The basic design, made of hardened steel of circular cross section bent into a U-shape with a removable crossbar, has been emulated by numerous other manufacturers, and adapted with variations in size and shape for other applications, such as locking motorcycles.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Kryptonite is an Allegion-owned brand of bicycle lock for securing a bicycle to a pole or other fixture, when the owner wants to leave the bicycle in a public place. The basic design, made of hardened steel of circular cross section bent into a U-shape with a removable crossbar, has been emulated by numerous other manufacturers, and adapted with variations in size and shape for other applications, such as locking motorcycles. The product was named after kryptonite, the fictitious substance that can thwart the powerful comic-book hero Superman. The name is used under a limited trademark agreement with DC Comics dating back to 1983. (en)
dbo:formerName
  • KBL Corporation (until April 1985) (en)
dbo:foundingYear
  • 1972-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:locationCity
dbo:numberOfEmployees
  • 30 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:parentCompany
dbo:product
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 1207727 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7944 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1034224249 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:brands
  • Evolution series, New York Lock (en)
dbp:formerName
  • KBL Corporation (en)
dbp:founder
  • Stanley Kaplan (en)
dbp:hqLocationCity
dbp:hqLocationCountry
  • US (en)
dbp:industry
  • Outdoor recreation products (en)
dbp:keyPeople
  • Karen Rizzo, General Manager and Director of Marketing (en)
dbp:name
  • Kryptonite Corporation (en)
dbp:numEmployees
  • 30 (xsd:integer)
dbp:numEmployeesYear
  • 2008 (xsd:integer)
dbp:parent
dbp:products
  • Locks, and other security and safety products for bicycles, motorcycles, outdoor equipment (en)
dbp:type
  • Subsidiary (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Kryptonite is an Allegion-owned brand of bicycle lock for securing a bicycle to a pole or other fixture, when the owner wants to leave the bicycle in a public place. The basic design, made of hardened steel of circular cross section bent into a U-shape with a removable crossbar, has been emulated by numerous other manufacturers, and adapted with variations in size and shape for other applications, such as locking motorcycles. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Kryptonite lock (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Kryptonite Corporation (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License