bench

piece of furniture on which several people may sit at the same time
Thing type_of_seat Q204776
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bench

Summary

bench is a type of seat[1]. bench draws 261 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_seat category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • bench's instance of is recorded as type of seat[3].
  • bench is a type of street furniture[4].
  • bench is a type of seating furniture[5].
  • bench's Commons category is recorded as Benches[6].
  • bench's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Benches (furniture)[7].
  • bench's Commons gallery is recorded as Benches[8].
  • bench's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=bench[9].
  • bench's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[10].
  • bench's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • bench's partially coincident with is recorded as banquette[12].
  • bench's different from is recorded as Skamya[13].
  • bench's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14].

Body

Definition and Type

bench's instance of is recorded as type of seat[3]. Recorded subclass of include street furniture[4] and seating furniture[5].

Influence

Things named for bench include bank[15] and bench[16].

Why It Matters

bench draws 261 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_seat category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] bench has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] bench is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Entities named for bench include bank[15] and bench[16].

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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Subclass of
    Topic's main category Category:Benches (furniture)
    Described by source Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 26195, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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