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ontology

study of the nature of being, becoming, existence or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations (philosophy)
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Summary

ontology is a field of study[1]. ontology ranks in the top 0.53% of field of study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (30,820 views/month, #2 of 379).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Part of: metaphysics[4], philosophy[5]
  • Commons category: Ontology[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ontology[7]
  • Described by source: New Encyclopedic Dictionary[8], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[11]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/ontology[12]
  • Different from: ontology[13], anthology[14]
  • Is the study of: reality[15], existence[16], becoming[17], being[18]
  • Practiced by: ontologist[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • P14541: 3fRr5N[21], 25m1gs[22]

Why It Matters

ontology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] ontology is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

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  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Punjabipedia id → ਤੱਤ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ; ਤੱਤ %E0%A8%B6ਾਸਤਰ
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Punjabipedia id: ਤੱਤ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ; ਤੱਤ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰ"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3fRr5N, 25m1gs
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0310257-ontologie-filozofie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0310257-ontologie-filozofie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  4. 22w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +1
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2689885
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||oc, simple */ Add 2 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingual maintenance — Q-walker v2.1)."
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