assassination

murder of a prominent person
Event type_of_crime Q3882219
assassination
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assassination

Summary

assassination is a type of crime[1]. assassination ranks in the top 2% of type_of_crime entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,837 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • assassination's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].
  • assassination is a type of deliberate murder[4].
  • assassination's Commons category is recorded as Assassination[5].
  • assassination's said to be the same as is recorded as magnicide[6].
  • assassination's said to be the same as is recorded as political murder[7].
  • assassination's target is recorded as public figure[8].
  • assassination's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Assassinations[9].
  • assassination's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10].
  • assassination's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[11].
  • assassination's partially coincident with is recorded as political murder[12].
  • assassination's has characteristic is recorded as location of the assassination[13].
  • assassination's different from is recorded as attempted murder[14].
  • assassination's different from is recorded as murder[15].
  • assassination's different from is recorded as deliberate murder[16].
  • assassination's different from is recorded as homicide[17].
  • assassination's different from is recorded as targeted killing[18].
  • assassination's practiced by is recorded as assassin[19].
  • assassination's practiced by is recorded as special forces[20].

Body

Context

assassination's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].

Why It Matters

assassination ranks in the top 2% of type_of_crime entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,837 views/month).[2] assassination has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] assassination is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from attempted murder, murder, deliberate murder +2
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    Subclass of deliberate murder
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    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5650, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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