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industry

group of firms that produce a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services
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Summary

industry is an economic concept[1]. industry draws 3,311 Wikipedia views per month (economic concept category, ranking #37 of 213).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: group[3]
  • Part of: economic sector[4]
  • Commons category: Industries[5]
  • Has part(s): company[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Industries (economics)[7], Category:Industry (economics)[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Industries[9]
  • Used by: Q139970117[10]
  • Has characteristic: type of industry[11]
  • Main Wikidata property: P452[12]
  • Different from: industrial sector[13], economic sector[14], economic activity[15]

Why It Matters

industry has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] industry is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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biomedical engineering blockchain computer networking computer security data engineering financial economics hospitality industry natural language processing robotics telematics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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. 2d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jstor topic id (archived) → industrial-sectors
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Jstor topic id (archived): industrial-sectors"
  2. 2d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Yso id → 998
    Great russian encyclopedia portal id → —
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Yso id: 1427"
  3. 3d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Industries (economics), Category:Industry (economics)
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Analysis & policy observatory term id: 20318"
  4. 3d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Art & architecture thesaurus id: 300055718"
  5. 3d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Industries (economics), Category:Industry (economics)
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'bar', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cv', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'et', 'fa',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Ndl authority id: 00570111"
  6. 12w ago · Circeus · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → Q139970117
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Used by: Q139970117"
  7. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → industry
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: industry, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289936269|industry (#289936269)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  8. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0204438-hospodarska-odvetvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0204438-hospodarska-odvetvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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