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Yellow Pages

telephone directory of businesses by category
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Summary

Yellow Pages is a business directory[1]. It draws 2,490 Wikipedia views per month (business directory category, ranking #1 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Germany[3]
  • Owned by: Apax Partners[4]
  • Subclass of: telephone directory[5]
  • Commons category: Yellow pages[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Yellow pages[7]
  • Main subject: business directory[8]
  • Equivalent class: https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#YellowPages[9]
  • Has list: list of yellow pages[10]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Every Book Its Reader 2025[11]

Why It Matters

Yellow Pages has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Germany

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] ↑ . Q141624432. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Yellow Pages. Retrieved October 9, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/yellow-pages
MLA “Yellow Pages.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 9 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/yellow-pages.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_yellow-pages_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Yellow Pages}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/yellow-pages}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-09}}
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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. 9d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 27
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'fy', 'he', 'hif', 'hy', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'lt',
    Equivalent class → https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#YellowPages
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#YellowPages"
  2. 27d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → yellow-pages
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: yellow-pages, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289969388|yellow pages (#289969388)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  3. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Instance of → business directory
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007565808005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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