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nursing home

Facility for the care of people in need of care
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nursing home

Summary

nursing home ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,318 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • nursing home's field of work was residential care[2].
  • nursing home is a type of social welfare institution[3].
  • nursing home is a type of facility[4].
  • nursing home's Commons category is recorded as Nursing homes[5].
  • nursing home's said to be the same as is recorded as retirement home[6].
  • nursing home's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Nursing homes[7].
  • nursing home's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=nursing_home[8].
  • nursing home's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=social_facility[9].
  • nursing home's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as social_facility=nursing_home[10].
  • nursing home's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'ESSMS'}[11].
  • nursing home's different from is recorded as hospital[12].
  • nursing home's different from is recorded as Day center[13].
  • nursing home's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000932[14].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include social welfare institution[3] and facility[4].

Why It Matters

nursing home ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,318 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 100 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → hospital, Day center
    P14692 → ['Q6591', 'Q6912', 'Q6263']
    Partially coincident with → Q180370
    Wikidata description → Facility for the care of people in need of care
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
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