ambulance

vehicle equipped for transporting and caring for ill and wounded people
Thing general Q180481
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ambulance

Summary

ambulance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,385 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ambulance is operated by ambulance driver[2].
  • ambulance is operated by emergency medical services[3].
  • ambulance is a type of emergency vehicle[4].
  • ambulance is a type of rescue vehicle[5].
  • ambulance is part of emergency medical services[6].
  • ambulance's Commons category is recorded as Ambulances[7].
  • ambulance's Unicode character is recorded as 🚑[8].
  • ambulance's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ambulances[9].
  • ambulance's Commons gallery is recorded as Ambulance[10].
  • ambulance's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[11].
  • ambulance's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • ambulance's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[13].
  • ambulance's used by is recorded as emergency medical services[14].
  • ambulance's used by is recorded as patient transport[15].
  • ambulance's different from is recorded as emergency department[16].
  • ambulance's carries passengers or cargo is recorded as patient[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include emergency vehicle[4] and rescue vehicle[5].

Use and Application

ambulance is part of emergency medical services[6]. Recorded used by include emergency medical services[14] and patient transport[15].

Why It Matters

ambulance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,385 views/month).[1] ambulance has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] ambulance is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id C180918
    Umls cui C0013965
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14750, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 17d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by
    Described by source Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work
    Instance of ['Q42889', 'Q13222551']
    Umls cui C0013965
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P2892]]: C0013965"
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