ossuary

place like a building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains
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ossuary

Summary

ossuary ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,051 views/month, #545 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • ossuary's image is recorded as Bonehouse1.jpg[2].
  • ossuary's GND ID is recorded as 4144375-5[3].
  • ossuary's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh95000262[4].
  • ossuary's subclass of is recorded as funerary structure[5].
  • ossuary's subclass of is recorded as funeral building[6].
  • ossuary's Commons category is recorded as Ossuaries[7].
  • ossuary's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/017mvg[8].
  • ossuary's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph156679[9].
  • ossuary's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ossuaries[10].
  • ossuary's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300005897[11].
  • ossuary's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 918113[12].
  • ossuary's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0198239[13].
  • ossuary's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • ossuary's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/ossuary[15].
  • ossuary's Jewish Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 13103[16].
  • ossuary's different from is recorded as columbarium[17].
  • ossuary's different from is recorded as ossarium[18].
  • ossuary's EAGLE id is recorded as objtyp/lod/1970[19].
  • ossuary's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'For funerary containers like chests or boxes use "ossuary (Q56612266) ".'}[20].
  • ossuary's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00059655n[21].
  • ossuary's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2681474[22].
  • ossuary's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as ossuaries[23].
  • ossuary's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrt0YYwncvlpV[24].
  • ossuary's Thésaurus de la désignation des œuvres architecturales et des espaces aménagés ID is recorded as 185[25].
  • ossuary's archINFORM keyword ID is recorded as 2580[26].

Why It Matters

ossuary ranks in the top 0.7% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,051 views/month, #545 of 77,819).[1] ossuary has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] ossuary is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . archINFORM. Retrieved . archinform.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ossuary_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{ossuary}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ossuary}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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