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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
The analysis highlights Events and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around 1988.
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The extracted context around 1988 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 1988 → Algiers, American, An, At, August, Benazir Bhutto, Bush, China, Chun Doo-hwan, Democratic, Eastern Bloc, Elections, Energia, Estonian Sovereignty Declaration, Estonian SSR, European Internet, Fairtrade, Former Korean, Frans, Gengma Another extracted example is 1988 → Alberta, Ali Hassan, Anfal, Armenian SSR, Armenians, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Ba'athist Iraqi, Bezzavetnyy, Black Sea, Calgary, Canada, Collapse, February, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, First National Bank, Higgins, Iran, Iraq War, Iraqi Kurdistan, Korea. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 331 structured relationships around 1988. Examples in this analysis include 1988 → - Kali Yuga → 5088–5089 and 1988 → - Shaka Samvat → 1909–1910. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | - Kali Yuga | 5088–5089 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | - Shaka Samvat | 1909–1910 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | - Vikram Samvat | 2044–2045 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Ab urbe condita | 2741 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Armenian calendar | 1437 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԷ | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Assyrian calendar | 6738 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Baháʼí calendar | 144–145 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Balinese saka calendar | 1909–1910 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Bengali calendar | 1394–1395 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Berber calendar | 2938 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | British Regnal year | 36 Eliz. 2 – 37 Eliz. 2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Buddhist calendar | 2532 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Burmese calendar | 1350 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Byzantine calendar | 7496–7497 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4685 or 4478 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4686 or 4479 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Coptic calendar | 1704–1705 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Discordian calendar | 3154 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Ethiopian calendar | 1980–1981 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Gregorian calendar | 1988 MCMLXXXVIII | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Hebrew calendar | 5748–5749 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Holocene calendar | 11988 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Igbo calendar | 988–989 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Iranian calendar | 1366–1367 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Islamic calendar | 1408–1409 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Japanese calendar | Shōwa 63 (昭和６３年) | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Javanese calendar | 1920–1921 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Juche calendar | 77 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Korean calendar | 4321 | 1.00 | infobox |
| 1988 | Minguo calendar | ROC 77 民國77年 | 1.00 | infobox |
The concept neighborhoods around 1988 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include British, July and May. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For 1988, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects 1988 with Events. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around 1988 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Events & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — 1988 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout