slaughterhouse

facility where animals are killed for consumption as food products
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slaughterhouse

Summary

slaughterhouse ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,961 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • slaughterhouse is a type of agricultural structure[2].
  • slaughterhouse is a type of facility[3].
  • slaughterhouse is used for animal slaughter[4].
  • slaughterhouse's Commons category is recorded as Slaughterhouses[5].
  • slaughterhouse's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Slaughterhouses[6].
  • slaughterhouse's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as industrial=slaughterhouse[7].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[12].
  • slaughterhouse's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[13].
  • slaughterhouse's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000925[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include agricultural structure[2] and facility[3].

Use and Application

slaughterhouse is used for animal slaughter[4].

Influence

Things named for slaughterhouse include Slaughterhouse-Five[15], a literary work[16], written by Kurt Vonnegut[17] and Mataderos, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires[18], a neighborhood of Buenos Aires[19], in Argentina[20].

Why It Matters

slaughterhouse ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,961 views/month).[1] slaughterhouse has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] slaughterhouse is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for slaughterhouse include Slaughterhouse-Five[15], a literary work[16], written by Kurt Vonnegut[17] and Mataderos, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires[18], a neighborhood of Buenos Aires[19], in Argentina[20].

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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [19] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of agricultural structure, facility
    Aliases
    Subclass of
    Described by source Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890) +3
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