bus

large road vehicle for transporting people
Thing vehicle_functional_class Q5638
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

bus

Summary

bus is a vehicle functional class[1]. bus draws 16,180 Wikipedia views per month (vehicle_functional_class category, ranking #1,027 of 31).[2]

Key Facts

  • bus's instance of is recorded as vehicle functional class[3].
  • bus is a type of motor vehicle[4].
  • bus is a type of road vehicle[5].
  • bus is a type of passenger vehicle[6].
  • bus is a type of commercial vehicle[7].
  • bus is used for passenger transport[8].
  • bus is used for passenger transportation[9].
  • bus's Commons category is recorded as Buses[10].
  • bus's Unicode character is recorded as 🚍[11].
  • bus's Unicode character is recorded as 🚌[12].
  • bus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Buses[13].
  • bus's Commons gallery is recorded as Bus[14].
  • bus's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Buses[15].
  • bus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • bus's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17].
  • bus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • bus's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • bus's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[20].
  • bus's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox bus[21].
  • bus's used by is recorded as passenger vehicle operator[22].
  • bus's has characteristic is recorded as seating capacity[23].
  • bus's has characteristic is recorded as low floor technology[24].
  • bus's has characteristic is recorded as articulated vehicle[25].
  • bus's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/BusOrCoach[26].
  • bus's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C204031[27].

Body

Definition and Type

bus's instance of is recorded as vehicle functional class[3]. Recorded subclass of include motor vehicle[4], road vehicle[5], passenger vehicle[6], and commercial vehicle[7].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include passenger transport[8] and passenger transportation[9]. bus's used by is recorded as passenger vehicle operator[22].

Why It Matters

bus draws 16,180 Wikipedia views per month (vehicle_functional_class category, ranking #1,027 of 31).[2] bus has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] bus is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

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.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). bus. Retrieved October 2, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/bus
MLA “bus.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 2 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/bus.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bus_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{bus}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bus}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-02}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): bus — https://4ort.xyz/entity/bus (retrieved 2026-10-02)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/bus · Last refreshed:

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. 16d ago · Zache · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14864 → linjaauto
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14864]]: linjaauto, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1789688721844"
  2. 18d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → buses
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: buses, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920726|buses (#289920726)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 5w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archive of our own tag → Bus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8419]]: Bus"
  4. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Iserlohn
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  5. 6w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19380
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C19380, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  6. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4FY5CV, 4I8esw
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 14w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → vehicle functional class
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q124315169]]"
  8. 16w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002976-autobusy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002976-autobusy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C204031
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 6100, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  10. 21w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Has use → passenger transport, passenger transportation
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1799162
    Designed to carry → passenger
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2892]]: C0336815"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.