taxi

type of vehicle for hire with a driver
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Summary

taxi is a means of transport[1]. taxi draws 6,574 Wikipedia views per month (means of transport category, ranking #1,451 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: vehicle functional class[3]
  • Named after: taximeter[4]
  • Subclass of: commercial vehicle[5], vehicle[6], sport utility vehicle[7], land transport[8], transport vehicle[9]
  • Has use: taxi service[10]
  • Commons category: Taxi vehicles[11]
  • Unicode character: 🚕[12], 🚖[13]
  • Has part(s): taximeter[14], taxi driver[15], transport[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Taxis[17]
  • Commons gallery: Taxi[18]
  • Facet of: urban and regional transportation[19], non-scheduled transport[20]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21]
  • Used by: taxi driver[22]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Taxi[23]
  • Different from: Taxi[24]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000612[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
  • Model item: autorickshaw[27], share taxi[28]

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Influence

Things named for taxi include Big Yellow Taxi[29], a musical work/composition[30]; taxicab geometry[31], a metric function[32]; taxicab number[33], a type of integer[34]; and Bixi[35], a bicycle-sharing system[36], in Canada[37], founded in 2009[38], headquartered in Montreal[39].

Why It Matters

taxi has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] taxi is known by 78 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

Entities named for taxi include Big Yellow Taxi[29], a musical work/composition[30]; taxicab geometry[31], a metric function[32]; taxicab number[33], a type of integer[34]; and Bixi[35], a bicycle-sharing system[36], in Canada[37], founded in 2009[38], headquartered in Montreal[39].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Library of Congress Authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . nextcab.in. nextcab.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . legaldocs.co.in. legaldocs.co.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Emojipedia. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] ↑ . 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. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . 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. 1d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → plant
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cdo', 'chr', 'ckb
    Sitelink count → 113
    P14968 → Pune
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14968: Q1538, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/291586|batch #291586]]"
  2. 13w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → taxicabs
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 457965, Adding [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier for [[P:P14470|P14470]]"
  3. 13w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → means of transport, vehicle functional class
    Eurovoc id → 5927
    Subclass of → commercial vehicle, vehicle, sport utility vehicle +2
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Eurovoc id: 5927, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260985|batch #260985]]"
  4. 17w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → means of transport, vehicle functional class
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: car classification"
  5. 18w ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Taxi_Cab
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14470: Objects/Taxi_Cab, #mix'n'match"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Facet of → urban and regional transportation, non-scheduled transport
    Has parts → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 1991, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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