accident

unforeseen event that causes damage to a person or property
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accident

Summary

accident is a failure mode[1]. accident draws 962 Wikipedia views per month (failure_mode category, ranking #7 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • accident's instance of is recorded as failure mode[3].
  • accident is a type of incident[4].
  • accident is a type of calamity[5].
  • accident's Commons category is recorded as Accidents[6].
  • accident's has cause is recorded as cause of accident[7].
  • accident's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Accidents[8].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • accident's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[12].
  • accident's partially coincident with is recorded as misfortune[13].
  • accident's has effect is recorded as injury[14].
  • accident's has effect is recorded as death[15].
  • accident's has characteristic is recorded as type of accident[16].
  • accident's different from is recorded as accident[17].
  • accident's different from is recorded as accident fallacy[18].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P276[19].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P625[20].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P585[21].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P1120[22].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P1339[23].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P17[24].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P18[25].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P1561[26].
  • accident's properties for this type is recorded as P1840[27].

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Definition and Type

accident's instance of is recorded as failure mode[3]. Recorded subclass of include incident[4] and calamity[5].

Why It Matters

accident draws 962 Wikipedia views per month (failure_mode category, ranking #7 of 17).[2] accident has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] accident is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_accident_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{accident}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/accident}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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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. 22d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag accidents
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: accidents, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915365|accidents (#289915365)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  2. 27d ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id 722
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 722, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167473933|ACCIDENT (#167473933)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix'"
  3. 27d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id Q294741
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q294741, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 29d ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of failure mode
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q140640277]]"
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