public building

buildings or groups of buildings owned and operated by a governing body, carrying out official duties, and often occupied by a governmental agency
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public building

Summary

public building is a type of building[1]. It draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_building category, ranking #79 of 101).[2]

Key Facts

  • public building's instance of is recorded as type of building[3].
  • public building is a type of building[4].
  • public building is a type of geographic location[5].
  • public building's Commons category is recorded as Public buildings[6].
  • public building's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Public buildings[7].
  • public building's facet of is recorded as public sphere[8].
  • public building's facet of is recorded as architecture[9].
  • public building's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=public_building[10].
  • public building's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as building=public[11].
  • public building's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000781[12].

Body

Definition and Type

public building's instance of is recorded as type of building[3]. Recorded subclass of include building[4] and geographic location[5].

Why It Matters

public building draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_building category, ranking #79 of 101).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . 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] . raw.githubusercontent.com. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). public building. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-building
MLA “public building.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-building.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_public-building_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{public building}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/public-building}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of public sphere, architecture
    Subclass of building, geographic location
    Instance of
    Aliases
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 88, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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