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animacy

grammatical and/or semantic category of nouns based on how sentient or alive the referent of the noun in a given taxonomic scheme is
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animacy

Summary

animacy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (139 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • animacy's subclass of is recorded as grammatical gender[2].
  • animacy's subclass of is recorded as grammatical category[3].
  • animacy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01ghcn[4].
  • animacy's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000129739[5].
  • animacy's different from is recorded as rational[6].
  • animacy's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 1902[7].
  • animacy's ISOCAT ID is recorded as 78[8].
  • animacy's BabelNet ID is recorded as 01527583n[9].
  • animacy's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2289524[10].
  • animacy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778589607[11].
  • animacy's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2778589607[12].

Why It Matters

animacy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (139 views/month).[1] animacy has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] animacy is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . datcatinfo.termweb.eu. datcatinfo.termweb.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_animacy_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{animacy}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/animacy}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-04}}
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