sleep

naturally recurring resting state of mind and body
Intangible biological_process Q35831
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sleep

Summary

sleep is a biological process[1]. sleep ranks in the top 2% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,148 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sleep's instance of is recorded as biological process[3].
  • sleep's instance of is recorded as state of consciousness[4].
  • sleep was followed by awakening[5].
  • sleep is a type of multicellular organismal process[6].
  • sleep is a type of behavior[7].
  • sleep's Commons category is recorded as Sleeping[8].
  • sleep is the opposite of wakefulness[9].
  • sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 💤[10].
  • sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 🛌[11].
  • sleep's Unicode character is recorded as 😴[12].
  • sleep's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sleep[13].
  • sleep's facet of is recorded as health[14].
  • sleep's depicted by is recorded as The Sleeper[15].
  • sleep's depicted by is recorded as The Sleeping woman[16].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[21].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[22].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[23].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[24].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25].
  • sleep's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[26].
  • sleep's partially coincident with is recorded as rest[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include biological process[3] and state of consciousness[4]. Recorded subclass of include multicellular organismal process[6] and behavior[7]. sleep is the opposite of wakefulness[9].

Influence

Things named for sleep include Sleep[28], a musical group[29], founded in 1990[30]; Gliridae[31], a taxon[32]; Tahajjud[33], a salah[34], founded in 0631[35], written by God in Islam[36]; and Palus Somni[37], a palus[38].

Why It Matters

sleep ranks in the top 2% of biological_process entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (25,148 views/month).[2] sleep has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] sleep is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]

Entities named for sleep include Sleep[28], a musical group[29], founded in 1990[30]; Gliridae[31], a taxon[32]; Tahajjud[33], a salah[34], founded in 0631[35], written by God in Islam[36]; and Palus Somni[37], a palus[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. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] ↑ . 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. [39] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [40] ↑ . 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. 6d ago · Khhy · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → sleeper
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P3095]]: [[Q23038514]]"
  2. 16d ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → somn
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3509]]: somn, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/39943450|Sömn (#39943450)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 5w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C1017
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P10381]]: C1017, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 8w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Kangxi radical 209 (⿐)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295934, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  5. 10w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2egrPm, 3aKNiV, 40OuYl
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → sleep
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: sleep, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959840|sleep (#289959840)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  7. 15w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0006965-spanek
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0006965-spanek, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  8. 19w ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Depicted by → The Sleeper, The Sleeping woman
    Has effect → sleeping, dream
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language +7
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3636837
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P10283]]: C2775894451, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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