business

organization undertaking commercial, industrial, or professional activity
class legal_term_or_legal_concept Q4830453
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Summary

business is a legal term or legal concept[1]. business ranks in the top 0.83% of legal term or legal concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26,338 views/month, #4 of 484).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: field of study[3], type of organization[4]
  • Owned by: entrepreneur[5]
  • Subclass of: organization[6], juridical person[7]
  • Commons category: Business[8]
  • Said to be the same as: commercial organization[9], enterprise[10], company[11]
  • Has part(s): enterprise[12], economic activity[13], business sector[14], property[15], human capital[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Business[17], Q32349237[18]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Companies[19]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Business[21]
  • Has characteristic: type of business entity[22]
  • Equivalent class: https://dbpedia.org/ontology/Company[23], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=Business[24]
  • Different from: business activity[25], Business[26], business (subject area)[27], trading business (Handelsgewerbe)[28], company[29]
  • Properties for this type: P2403[30], P452[31], P1454[32], P2541[33], P856[34], P1448[35], P1056[36], P571[37], P576[38], P1128[39], P159[40], P740[41], P1830[42], P199[43]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for business include Brookings[44], a city of Oregon[45], in United States[46], founded in 1951[47].

Why It Matters

business has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] business is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

Works attributed to business include mission statement[50]. Entities named for business include Brookings[44], a city of Oregon[45], in United States[46], founded in 1951[47].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . DBpedia. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . realbusiness.co.uk. realbusiness.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Q138362428. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Landre89 · 2026-10-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ady', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_o
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  2. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://dbpedia.org/ontology/Company, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://dbpedia.org/ontology/Company"
  3. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → —
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