organism

living being or physical living system composed of organic matter
Thing type_of_physical_object Q7239
organism
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Summary

organism is a type of physical object[1]. organism draws 21,988 Wikipedia views per month (type of physical object category, ranking #90 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: agentive physical object[3], biological component[4], material anatomical entity[5]
  • Part of: population[6], group of living things[7], Biota[8]
  • Commons category: Organisms[9]
  • Said to be the same as: creature[10]
  • Has part(s): cell[11], organ system[12], biological component[13]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Organisms[14], Category:Individual organisms[15], Category:Organism[16]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20]
  • Partially coincident with: body[21]
  • Has characteristic: species distribution[22], biological life cycle[23], taxon[24], homeostasis[25], trophic level[26], scientific name[27], feeding behavior[28], primary nutritional group[29], mode of biological reproduction[30], organism trait[31], date of birth[32]
  • Manifestation of: life[33], living system[34], genome[35]
  • Equivalent class: http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001[36], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022[37], http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing[38], https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#EntityThatCanBeAlive[39], https://w3id.org/semanticarts/ns/ontology/gist/LivingThing[40], http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#organism__being-eng-3.0-00004475-n[41], http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Organism[42]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C14250[43]
  • Different from: Organism[44], corpse[45], human body[46]
  • Properties for this type: P10241[47], P569[48]
  • Uses: energy[49], food[50], water[51], oxygen[52], fertilizer[53]
  • Has list: list of life forms[54]
  • Studied by: biology[55], life sciences[56]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[57]
  • Narrower external class: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#SCR_Organism[58]

Body

Influence

Things named for organism include cyborg[59], a blend word[60].

Why It Matters

organism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[61] organism is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[62]

Entities named for organism include cyborg[59], a blend word[60].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q141163319. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . biologydictionary.net. biologydictionary.net. Provenance: 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.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Q138494225. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . Core Ontology for Biology and Biomedicine. wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . Q141247525. wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . Q141624432. wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . Q141190966. wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Q141581969. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . DOLCE+DnS Ultralite. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  52. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  53. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  54. [56] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  55. [57] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  56. [58] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [59] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [60] ↑ . 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. [61] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [62] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Organism"
  2. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#organism__being-eng-3.0-00004475-n"
  3. 10d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://w3id.org/semanticarts/ns/ontology/gist/LivingThing"
  4. 14d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://www.webkb.org/doc/RDF/phOntology.rdfs#EntityThatCanBeAlive"
  5. 17d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    Sitelink count → 173
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'b
    Subclass of → agentive physical object, biological component, material anatomical entity
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Subclass of: agentive physical object"
  6. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022"
  7. 5w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14870 → ont00000551
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53024|batch #53024]]"
  8. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/STY/T001, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/COB_0000022, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#LivingBeing +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000551"
  9. 8w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → agentive physical object, biological component, material anatomical entity
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: biological component"
  10. 10w ago · FitikWasTaken · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → living being or physical living system composed of organic matter
    Instance of → type of physical object
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||isv-cyrl, isv-latn */"
  11. 14w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → agentive physical object, biological component, material anatomical entity
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: agent"
  12. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Svkkl authority id → 0218576-zive-organismy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0218576-zive-organismy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  13. 23w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Umls cui → C0029235
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: C0029235"
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