granary

storage building for grain
Thing type_of_building Q114768
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Summary

granary is a type of building[1]. granary draws 1,593 Wikipedia views per month (type of building category, ranking #28 of 101).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: grain storage building[3], agricultural structure[4], architectural structure[5], farm building[6]
  • Has use: storage[7]
  • Commons category: Granaries[8]
  • Start time: 9000 BC[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Granaries[10]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: building=granary[11]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Encyclopedic Lexicon[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[15], Pauly–Wissowa[16]
  • Different from: Obilnice[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]

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Influence

Things named for granary include monastic grange[19], a type of farmhouse[20].

Why It Matters

granary has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] granary is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for granary include monastic grange[19], a type of farmhouse[20].

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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] ↑ . blogs.scientificamerican.com. blogs.scientificamerican.com. Provenance: 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] ↑ . 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. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q16376
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  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q296281
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  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0399874-sypky
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  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Marienberg Bergmagazin (07).JPG, Etelä-Pohjanmaan museo vilja-aitta.jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 11033, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  5. 22w ago · Jacek Halicki · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has use → storage
    Aliases → —
    Start time → —
    Instance of → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: 2026 Elewator Ziębice (1).jpg"
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