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being

objective and subjective features of reality and existence (philosophy)
Thing concept Q203872
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being

Summary

being is a concept[1]. being draws 7,372 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #1,760 of 912).[2]

Key Facts

  • being's instance of is recorded as concept[3].
  • being's instance of is recorded as philosophical concept[4].
  • being's instance of is recorded as ambiguous label[5].
  • being is a type of abstract entity[6].
  • being is a type of predicate[7].
  • being is a type of Q141453164[8].
  • being is part of everything[9].
  • being is the opposite of Q141456178[10].
  • being's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Being[11].
  • being's described at URL is recorded as https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Being[12].
  • being's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[13].
  • being's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • being's partially coincident with is recorded as existence[15].
  • being's has characteristic is recorded as existence[16].
  • being's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Ascription[17].
  • being's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C89327[18].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[19].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[20].
  • being's different from is recorded as being[21].
  • being's studied by is recorded as ontology[22].
  • being's P14541 is recorded as 21XaFG[23].
  • being's P14541 is recorded as 2BJjgi[24].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include concept[3], philosophical concept[4], and ambiguous label[5]. Recorded subclass of include abstract entity[6], predicate[7], and Q141453164[8]. being is the opposite of Q141456178[10].

Use and Application

being is part of everything[9].

Why It Matters

being draws 7,372 Wikipedia views per month (concept category, ranking #1,760 of 912).[2] being has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] being is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Immanuel Kant ontology

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . newworldencyclopedia.org. newworldencyclopedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Q141439101. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Q533822. vocabularies.unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cu', 'cv', 'da', 'de',
    Opposite of → Q141456178
    Sitelink count → 73
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P461]]: [[Q141456178]]"
  2. 19d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → abstract entity, predicate, Q141453164
    Gsso id → 009996
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P9827]]: 009996"
  3. 19d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Comment (deprecated) → —
    Umls cui → C2987476
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P2315]]: subject is: any of the various concepts of being treated by various philosophers, inspired by Aristotle's treatment of being, which had to do with th"
  4. 7w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C89327
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1748]]: C89327"
  5. 11w ago · Infovarius · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → existence
    Instance of → concept, philosophical concept, ambiguous label
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1552]]: [[Q468777]]"
  6. 11w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → concept, philosophical concept, ambiguous label
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q7048977]]"
  7. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 21XaFG, 2BJjgi
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005073-byti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0005073-byti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Being
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
    Part of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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