brain

organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals
Thing organ_type Q1073
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brain

Summary

brain is an organ type[1]. brain draws 4,687 Wikipedia views per month (organ_type category, ranking #10 of 50).[2]

Key Facts

  • brain's instance of is recorded as organ type[3].
  • brain's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[4].
  • brain is a type of animal organ[5].
  • brain is a type of particular anatomical entity[6].
  • brain is part of central nervous system[7].
  • brain is part of neurovascular system[8].
  • brain's Commons category is recorded as Brain[9].
  • brain's Unicode character is recorded as 🧠[10].
  • brain's source of energy is recorded as glucose[11].
  • brain's found in taxon is recorded as Bilateria[12].
  • brain's has cause is recorded as cephalization[13].
  • brain's has cause is recorded as brain development[14].
  • brain's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Brain[15].
  • brain's Commons gallery is recorded as Brain[16].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[19].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20].
  • brain's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • brain's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox brain[22].
  • brain's topic has template is recorded as Q10635998[23].
  • brain's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C12439[24].
  • brain's different from is recorded as human brain[25].
  • brain's different from is recorded as Brain[26].
  • brain's studied by is recorded as neuroscience[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include organ type[3] and class of anatomical entity[4]. Recorded subclass of include animal organ[5] and particular anatomical entity[6].

Use and Application

Part of include central nervous system[7], an organ type[28] and neurovascular system[8], a biological system[29].

Influence

Things named for brain include Brainfuck[30], an esoteric programming language[31], founded in 1993[32]; Google Brain[33], a corporate research group[34], in United States[35], founded in 2011[36], headquartered in Mountain View[37]; otak-otak[38], a human food[39], in Indonesia[40]; Brain[41], a scientific journal[42], founded in 1878[43]; Ubongo[44], a board game[45]; Brain Research[46], a scientific journal[47], founded in 1966[48]; and Brainy Smurf[49], a smurf[50].

Why It Matters

brain draws 4,687 Wikipedia views per month (organ_type category, ranking #10 of 50).[2] brain has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] brain is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for brain include Brainfuck[30], an esoteric programming language[31], founded in 1993[32]; Google Brain[33], a corporate research group[34], in United States[35], founded in 2011[36], headquartered in Mountain View[37]; otak-otak[38], a human food[39], in Indonesia[40]; Brain[41], a scientific journal[42], founded in 1878[43]; Ubongo[44], a board game[45]; and Brain Research[46], a scientific journal[47], founded in 1966[48].

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.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [49] ↑ . 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. [31] ↑ . 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. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  16. [50] ↑ . 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. [51] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] ↑ . 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. 25d ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → om-hjarnan
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3509]]: om-hjarnan, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/22882172|Om hjärnan (#22882172)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 27d ago · Rfabbri · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → https://schema.org/BrainStructure, https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=brainbr, https://ids.clld.org/parameters/4-203 +1
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P2888]]: https://w3id.org/sstim/vocab#targetBrain, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1788697660010"
  3. 28d ago · YoshiRulz · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Source of energy → glucose
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P618]]: [[Q37525]]"
  4. 9w ago · WikiLucas00 · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → De-Gehirn2.ogg, LL-Q36236 (mal)-Netha Hussain-മസ്തിഷ്കം.wav
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P443]]: LL-Q36236 (mal)-Netha Hussain-മസ്തിഷ്കം.wav"
  5. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connects with → Nerve cord
    Biblissima authority id → Q297381
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q297381, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  6. 10w ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Anatomical location → —
    Connects with → Nerve cord
    Model item → encephalon
    Ground level 360 degree view url → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Bilaterian-plan.svg"
  7. 10w ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → central nervous system, neurovascular system
    Subclass of → animal organ, particular anatomical entity
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P361]]: [[Q23640]], Moving to [[Q75865]]"
  8. 10w ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Vertebrate-brain-regions small.png, LocustBrain.png, Bilaterian-plan.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Vertebrate-brain-regions small.png"
  9. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eska.pl topic id → tg-tsWH-L4oo-SEN9
    P14541 → 341u7d, 4dfTRs, 2EGPCD
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  10. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001885-mozek
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001885-mozek, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259473|batch #259473]]"
  11. 21w ago · Sofie Geneea · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iab code → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P5250]]: 313"
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