prison

place in which people are, for legal reasons, physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms
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prison

Summary

prison is a type of prison facility[1]. prison draws 22,412 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_prison_facility category, ranking #1 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • prison's instance of is recorded as type of prison facility[3].
  • Tyr is named after prison[4].
  • prison is a type of architectural structure[5].
  • prison is a type of prison facility[6].
  • prison is a type of institution[7].
  • prison is part of corrections[8].
  • prison is part of government building[9].
  • prison is part of human settlement[10].
  • prison is used for punishment[11].
  • prison is used for reform[12].
  • prison is used for incarceration[13].
  • prison is used for prison agency[14].
  • prison is used for imprisonment[15].
  • prison's Commons category is recorded as Prisons[16].
  • prison's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prisons[17].
  • prison's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Prisons[18].
  • prison's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=prison[19].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[26].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Body

Definition and Type

prison's instance of is recorded as type of prison facility[3]. Recorded subclass of include architectural structure[5], prison facility[6], and institution[7].

Origins

Tyr is named after prison[4].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include punishment[11], reform[12], incarceration[13], prison agency[14], and imprisonment[15]. Part of include corrections[8], an area of law[28]; government building[9], a type of building[29]; and human settlement[10], a first-order class[30].

Influence

Things named for prison include Jailbait[31], a slang term[32]; Zendan-e Soleyman[33], a mountain[34], in Iran[35]; and Haruniyeh Mausoleum[36], a mausoleum[37], in Iran[38].

Why It Matters

prison draws 22,412 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_prison_facility category, ranking #1 of 7).[2] prison has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] prison is known by 195 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

Entities named for prison include Jailbait[31], a slang term[32]; Zendan-e Soleyman[33], a mountain[34], in Iran[35]; and Haruniyeh Mausoleum[36], a mausoleum[37], in Iran[38].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [38] ↑ . 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. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . 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. 7d ago · KimKelting · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → prison organization, Prison, prison building +1
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q4503831]], using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 16d ago · Zache · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → rangaistuslaito
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14864]]: rangaistuslaito, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/323351491|Rangaistuslaitos (#323351491)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8450|Statis"
  3. 28d ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 221122403
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10689]]: 221122403, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/221122403 in United States"
  4. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → M. J. Hyland
    "/* 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. 10w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Prison
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Locations/Prison, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  6. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Eris
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295579, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  7. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → prison, prisons
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: prison, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949337|prison (#289949337)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000157-veznice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000157-veznice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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