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bench

piece of furniture on which several people may sit at the same time
Thing type_of_seat Q204776
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Summary

bench is a type of seat[1]. bench draws 750 Wikipedia views per month (type of seat category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: street furniture[3], seating furniture[4]
  • Commons category: Benches[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Benches (furniture)[6]
  • Commons gallery: Benches[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=bench[8]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
  • Partially coincident with: banquette[11]
  • Different from: Skamya[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13]

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Influence

Things named for bench include bank[14] and bench[15].

Why It Matters

bench has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] bench is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Entities named for bench include bank[14] and bench[15].

Related Entities

bank

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . 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. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q88
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  2. 8w ago · Treisijs · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → ['Q21830188', 'Q18092541', 'Q13409401']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Industrial design"
  3. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → benches
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: benches, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289911701|benches (#289911701)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Bench
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Bench, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  5. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Biblissima authority id → Q294987
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q294987, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  6. 19w ago · Hirho · 2026-06-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) of the class → Q95968272
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s) of the class: chair back"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Benches (furniture)
    Described by source → Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 26195, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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