vehicle

mobile machine used for transport, whether it has an engine or not (eg, towed or prime mover), including wheeled and tracked vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, and spacecraft
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Summary

vehicle is a type of object[1]. vehicle draws 9,051 Wikipedia views per month (type of object category, ranking #716 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: product category[3]
  • Operator: vehicle operator[4]
  • Subclass of: machine[5], means of transport[6], vehicles and vehicle parts product[7], container[8], physical object[9], assembly[10]
  • Part of: traffic[11], traffic collision[12]
  • Has use: transport[13]
  • Commons category: Vehicles[14]
  • Has part(s): door[15], seat[16], steering system[17], propulsion[18]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vehicles[19]
  • Commons gallery: Vehicles[20]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox vehicle[21], Template:Vehicle-stub[22]
  • Has effect: traffic congestion[23]
  • Has characteristic: portability[24], vehicle functional class[25], vehicle model[26]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3438[27]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Vehicle[28], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TSO_0000002[29]
  • Properties for this type: P2073[30], P2109[31], P4519[32], P3437[33], P2791[34], P1083[35], P516[36], P5817[37]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[38]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[39]
  • Connects with: seat belt[40]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000604[41], https://trt.trb.org/term/93143[42]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[43]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of vehicles[44]
  • Model item: abandoned vehicle[45], shipwreck[46], carriage[47]
  • Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after vehicles[48]

Why It Matters

vehicle has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] vehicle is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Schema.org. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . 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. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000604, https://trt.trb.org/term/93143
    Sitelink count → 120
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'ary', 'ast', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'bew', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', '
    P14870 → ont00000713
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2699, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7328002|vehicle (#7328002)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 19d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Vehicle, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TSO_0000002
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/TSO_0000002"
  3. 7w ago · TTWIDEE · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Archive of our own tag → Vehicles
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Archive of our own tag: Vehicles"
  4. 12w ago · Jlwoodwa · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category for eponymous categories → Category:Wikipedia categories named after vehicles
    Has effect → traffic congestion
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after vehicles"
  5. 12w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → traffic, traffic collision
    Has effect → traffic congestion
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ Moving Has effect to Part of"
  6. 14w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → portability, vehicle functional class, vehicle model
    Subclass of → machine, means of transport, vehicles and vehicle parts product +3
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|3 */ Has characteristic: vehicle model"
  7. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → vehicles
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: vehicles, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289966697|vehicles (#289966697)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  8. 14w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Instance of → type of object, product category
    Model item → abandoned vehicle, shipwreck, carriage
    Has characteristic → portability, vehicle functional class, vehicle model
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Model item: carriage"
  9. 15w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox vehicle, Template:Vehicle-stub
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: machine"
  10. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 2638, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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