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telephone booth

small structure furnished with a payphone
Class type of: telecommunications infrastructure, built structure, equipment Q1143785

Facts

5 properties
Subclass of
telecommunications infrastructure, built structure, equipment[1][2][3]
Has use
telephone call, phonebooth-stuffing[4][5]
Different from
telephone kiosk[8]
Has part(s)
payphone[6]
OpenStreetMap tag
covered=booth[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en phone kiosk en telephone box en phone booth en phone box en telephone booth en telephone kiosk ar كابينة هاتف cs veřejný telefonní automat cs telefonní automat cs telefonní budka da telefonboks de Telefonkabine de Fernsprechhäuschen de Basistelefon de Telefonhäuschen de Telefonsäule de Telefonhüttl de Telefonhaube de Öffentlicher Fernsprecher de TelH
🔖 Identifiers · 23
GND ID
4154091-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Telefonboks, andelslandsbyen Nyvang.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300005422
BBC Things ID
072f92d9-2f9c-45e0-aae9-86b2b70b4738
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
telefonzelle
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
technology/telephone-box
Freebase ID
/m/01x9x4
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
3055-2389
Giant Bomb Wiki ID
Objects/Phone_Booth
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
cabina-telefonica
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0165326
IMDb keyword
telephone-call-from-a-phone-booth, telephone-booth, phone-booth
Show all 23 identifiers +11
Itaú Cultural ID
obra59231/cabine-telefonica
KBpedia ID
TelephoneBooth
Museum-digital tag ID
45420
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
949
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
October 8
OpenStreetMap key
booth
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
電話ボックス
Quora topic ID
Telephone-Booth
Topic's main category
Category:Telephone booths
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Concept", "PhoneBooth::w7tn9"]
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
04408815-n

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 2
built structure, equipment
Subtypes 2
red telephone box, police box
Examples 1
Mojave phone booth
Has part(s) 1
payphone
Has use 1
telephone call
← Set in environment 1
La cabina
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  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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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. 9w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → October 8
    "Changed labels, descriptions or aliases: import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 15w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → telecommunications infrastructure, built structure, equipment
    Different from → telephone kiosk
    Has use → telephone call, phonebooth-stuffing
    Giant Bomb Wiki ID → Objects/Phone_Booth
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Giant Bomb Wiki ID: Objects/Phone_Booth, Adding missing P14470 and P9675 qualifier based on P5247"
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