cemetery

place of burial
Place geographical_feature Q39614
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Summary

cemetery is a geographical feature[1]. cemetery ranks in the top 0.81% of geographical feature entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,072 views/month, #6 of 743).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: location of burial[3], facility[4], geographic location[5]
  • Commons category: Cemeteries[6]
  • Unicode character: ⛼[7]
  • Has part(s): grave[8], memorial[9], tomb space[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cemeteries[11], by cemetery[12]
  • Commons gallery: Graveyard[13]
  • Facet of: death[14], burial[15]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=grave_yard[16], landuse=cemetery[17]
  • Described by source: Arkeologisen kulttuuriperinnön opas[18], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Green Map Icons[20], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21], Q105336459[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[24], Kartographer icon[25], New International Encyclopedia[26], Dresdner Hefte[27]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox cemetery[28]
  • Manifestation of: death[29], burial[30]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Cemetery[31], https://schema.org/Cemetery[32]
  • Different from: location of burial[33], cemetery, burial plot, or tomb[34], churchyard[35], inferred from place of burial[36], hazire[37]
  • Properties for this type: P17[38], P2324[39], P2351[40], P2046[41], P131[42], P625[43], P140[44], P571[45], P1791[46], P373[47], P1621[48], P1705[49], P6375[50], P3075[51]

Why It Matters

cemetery has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] cemetery is known by 127 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  14. [16] ↑ . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . OpenStreetMap Wiki. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . akp.nba.fi. Retrieved . akp.nba.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . app.raa.se. app.raa.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [53] ↑ . 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. 21d ago · Pi bot bot · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 140
    Category for the interior of the item → Category:Views of cemeteries
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'arc', 'arz', 'ast', 'ay', 'az', 'azb', 'bat_smg', 'bc
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for the interior of the item: Category:Views of cemeteries, Setting P7561 value"
  2. 5w ago · Adam78 · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Instance of → geographical feature
    Topic's main category → Category:Cemeteries, by cemetery
    Subclass of → location of burial, facility, geographic location
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving Used by to Topic's main category"
  3. 7w ago · P170 · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → location of burial, facility, geographic location
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Subclass of: architectural structure"
  4. 9w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Colombian Championship 1996/1997
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  5. 13w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Cemetery
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Cemetery, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  6. 13w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296301
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q296301, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  7. 13w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for eponymous categories → Category:Wikipedia categories named after cemeteries
    Used by → —
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 4168
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after cemeteries"
  8. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → cemeteries
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: cemeteries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289918140|cemeteries (#289918140)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  9. 18w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  10. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005095-hrbitovy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005095-hrbitovy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  11. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Properties for this type → P17, P2324, P2351 +13
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007284977505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
  12. 22w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Properties for this type → P17, P2324, P2351 +13
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Properties for this type: Find a grave cemetery id"
  13. 23w ago · Dcflyer · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Srgb color hex triplet → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Srgb color hex triplet: 696969"
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