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morgue

place for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification or burial
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Summary

morgue ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,925 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hospital building[2], hospital department[3], storage[4], chapel[5]
  • Commons category: Morgues[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Morgues[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: amenity=mortuary[8]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14]
  • Different from: funeral parlour[15]
  • Uses: autopsy[16]

Why It Matters

morgue has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] morgue is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

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

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). morgue. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/morgue
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_morgue_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{morgue}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/morgue}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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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. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q6197
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 9w ago · LadyData · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword → mortuary
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Imdb keyword: morgue, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193886416|morgue (#193886416)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|Top 10,000 IMDb keywords]"
  3. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Morgue
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Morgue, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  4. 17w ago · Bekipediya · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → funeral parlour
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia +3
    Subclass of → hospital building, hospital department, storage +1
    Uses → autopsy
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q25527878 */"
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