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teacher

person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values
Intangible profession Q37226
teacher
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Summary

teacher is a profession[1]. teacher ranks in the top 4% of profession entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,195 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: occupation[3], position[4]
  • Subclass of: educator[5], school staff[6], academic[7]
  • Commons category: Educators[8]
  • Field of this occupation: teaching[9], education[10]
  • Opposite of: learning person[11], apprentice[12], student[13]
  • Unicode character: 👨‍🏫[14], 👩‍🏫[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Teachers[16]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[17], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], Dresdner Hefte[22]
  • Partially coincident with: teaching professionals[23]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1066[24], P10610[25]
  • Different from: pedagogue[26], university teacher[27], Pedagóg[28], educator[29], Sensei[30]
  • Female form of label: учительница[31], učitelka[32], nauczycielka[33], enseignante[34], Lehrerin[35], onderwijzeres[36], настаўніца[37], lärarinna[38], δασκάλα[39], profesora[40], professora[41], учитељица[42], učiteljica[43], instruistino[44]

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Influence

Things named for teacher include Schuller[45], a family name[46].

Why It Matters

teacher has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] teacher is known by 154 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Entities named for teacher include Schuller[45], a family name[46].

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . www2.ub.gu.se. www2.ub.gu.se. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . drexel.edu. drexel.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [46] ↑ . 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. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . 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. 21d ago · Putnik · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 179
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'ay', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'b
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → mokytojai
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: mokytojai"
  2. 5w ago · Shisma · 2026-09-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14871 → 63439
    Ldt @ library classification authority id → 135908
    Ldt @ library subject terms authority id → 97736
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14871: 63439"
  3. 7w ago · WG0uMSn0dJm5lfrWbgoi · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Revised mandarin chinese dictionary id → 91841
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Revised mandarin chinese dictionary id: 91841"
  4. 10w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C20067
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C20067, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  5. 11w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Male form of label → {'lang': 'nov', 'text': 'instruktisto'}, {'lang': 'vo', 'text': 'hitidan'}, {'lang': 'io', 'text': 'instruktistulo'} +20
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Male form of label: învățător"
  6. 15w ago · A121008 · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → huslærer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Great norwegian encyclopedia id: huslærer"
  7. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → teachers
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: teachers, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289961542|teachers (#289961542)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  8. 16w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Süddeutsche zeitung topic id → Lehrer
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Süddeutsche zeitung topic id: Lehrer, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/213754789|Lehrer (#213754789)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7168|Süddeutsche Zeit"
  9. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0251090-ucitelky, h0004105-ucitele
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0251090-ucitelky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  10. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 1117, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  11. 25w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Field of this occupation → teaching, education
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +3
    Subclass of → educator, school staff, academic
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Isco-08 occupation class: 23, [[Wikidata:Bots/MarisDreshmanisBot|GSCO]] Phase 1.0: provenance reference for ISCO-08 occupation class (source: ISCO-08 Q113864458)"
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