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SB

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ218146
Source-derived summary

SB or Sb may refer to:

Places

United States

San Bernardino, California, a city

Santa Barbara, California, a city

South Burlington, Vermont, a city

Elsewhere

Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a territory of France (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code SB)

Solomon Islands, a country (ISO 3166 country code SB)

Sibiu County, a county in Romania

Organisations

Special Branch, of UK and some Commonwealth police

Służba Bezpieczeństwa, secret police in communist Poland

Sluzhba Bezpeky, WWII Ukrainian partisan underground intelligence service

Shaw Brothers Studio, a Hong Kong movie company

Statistics Bureau (Japan)

Šiaulių bankas, a Lithuanian commercial bank

Sarvajana Balaya, Sri Lankan political alliance

Science and technology

SB buffer, for electrophoresis

Antimony, symbol Sb, a chemical element

Barred spiral galaxy, in astronomy

Scientiæ Baccalaureus or Bachelor of Science, an academic degree

Spectroscopic binary stars, designated SB1 and SB2

Stilb (unit) (symbol sb), a unit of luminance

sideband

Spina bifida

Computing

.sb file, the file format for Scratch Projects

.sb2 file and .sb3, the file formats for Scratch 2 and 3

.sb, Internet country code top-level domain for Solomon Islands

sb, Store Byte, an RISC-V instruction

Sport and games

Sun Belt Conference, an NCAA Division I conference

Nike SB, skateboarding shoes

"Season's Best", an athletics abbreviation

Stolen base, in baseball

Sonneborn–Berger score, a scoring system often used to break ties in chess tournaments

Sundby Boldklub, a football club in Denmark

The Super Bowl, an American championship football game

Transportation

Aircalin (IATA airline code)

Sailing barge (ship prefix)

Skagensbanen (the Skagen Railway), a Danish railway line and company

South Buffalo Railway (reporting code)

Surabaya Kota railway station, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (station code: SB)

Suroboyo Bus in Surabaya, Indonesia

Tupolev SB, a Soviet bomber of World War II

Toyota SB, car

SB craft, an Imperial Japanese Army variant of the Imperial Japanese Navy's No.

Editorial summary

“SB” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wikimedia, disambiguation and page can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 299-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“SB” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wikimedia, disambiguation and page provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q218146. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “SB”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow SB primary sources, SB archive and Wikimedia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “SB”?
  2. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from SB” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.