prison

place in which people are, for legal reasons, physically confined and usually deprived of a range of personal freedoms
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prison

Summary

prison is a type of prison facility[1]. prison has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • prison's instance of is recorded as type of prison facility[3].
  • Tyr is named after prison[4].
  • prison is a type of architectural structure[5].
  • prison is a type of prison facility[6].
  • prison is a type of institution[7].
  • prison is part of corrections[8].
  • prison is part of government building[9].
  • prison is part of human settlement[10].
  • prison is used for punishment[11].
  • prison is used for reform[12].
  • prison is used for incarceration[13].
  • prison is used for prison agency[14].
  • prison is used for imprisonment[15].
  • prison's Commons category is recorded as Prisons[16].
  • prison's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prisons[17].
  • prison's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Prisons[18].
  • prison's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=prison[19].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[20].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[26].
  • prison's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[27].

Body

Definition and Type

prison's instance of is recorded as type of prison facility[3]. Recorded subclass of include architectural structure[5], prison facility[6], and institution[7].

Origins

Tyr is named after prison[4].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include punishment[11], reform[12], incarceration[13], prison agency[14], and imprisonment[15]. Part of include corrections[8], an area of law[28]; government building[9], a type of building[29]; and human settlement[10], a first-order class[30].

Influence

Things named for prison include Haruniyeh Mausoleum[31], a mausoleum[32], in Iran[33]; Zendan-e Soleyman[34], a mountain[35], in Iran[36]; and Jailbait[37], a slang term[38].

Why It Matters

prison has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] prison is known by 165 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

Entities named for prison include Haruniyeh Mausoleum[31], a mausoleum[32], in Iran[33]; Zendan-e Soleyman[34], a mountain[35], in Iran[36]; and Jailbait[37], a slang term[38].

References

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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] . 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 Locations/Prison
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Locations/Prison, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 27d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id Q295579
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295579, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag ['prison', 'prisons']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: prison, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949337|prison (#289949337)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 9w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0000157-veznice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000157-veznice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 13w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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