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animal shelter

facility that houses and disposes of homeless, lost, or abandoned animals
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animal shelter

Summary

animal shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (468 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • animal shelter is a type of artificial animal shelter[2].
  • animal shelter is a type of facility[3].
  • animal shelter's Commons category is recorded as Animal shelters[4].
  • animal shelter's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Animal shelters[5].
  • animal shelter's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=animal_shelter[6].
  • animal shelter's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[7].
  • animal shelter's used by is recorded as feral[8].
  • animal shelter's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/AnimalShelter[9].
  • animal shelter's different from is recorded as animal shelter created by an animal[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include artificial animal shelter[2] and facility[3].

Use and Application

animal shelter's used by is recorded as feral[8].

Why It Matters

animal shelter ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (468 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). animal shelter. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/animal-shelter
MLA “animal shelter.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/animal-shelter.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_animal-shelter_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{animal shelter}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/animal-shelter}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 14d ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Q134496690
    Different from → animal shelter created by an animal
    Subclass of → —
    Used by → feral
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q134496690]]"
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