cause

entity which forms causality for an event
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Summary

cause is a source type[1]. cause is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: actor[3]
  • Part of: causality[4]
  • Said to be the same as: antecedent[5]
  • Described by source: Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[6]
  • Has effect: occurrence[7], process[8], state[9], consequent[10], effect[11]
  • Has characteristic: causality[12]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1478[13], P828[14], P1536[15], P1542[16]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#CausalRole[17], http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicrole.owl#Cause[18], http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole[19], http://www.ease-crc.org/ont/SOMA.owl#CausalEventRole[20], http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Cause[21]
  • Different from: origin[22], Příčina[23], contributing factor[24], 'cause[25]
  • Has part(s) of the class: contributing factor[26]
  • P14541: 29MXIk[27]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . A Hierarchical Unification of LIRICS and VerbNet Semantic Roles. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . DOLCE+DnS Ultralite. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . VerbNet. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . SOMA. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Q141703392. 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] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. 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. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → causality
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#Caus, http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Cause"
  2. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → actor
    Instance of → source type
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: actor"
  3. 5d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#Caus, http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole"
  4. 6d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#Caus, http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicrole.owl#Cause"
  5. 15d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'et', 'fr', 'ht', 'is', 'kk', 'nl', 'ru', 'scn', 'sk']
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#Caus, http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#CauseRole +2
    Subclass of → actor
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/Roles.owl#CausalRole"
  6. 7w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → causality
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: actor"
  7. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 29MXIk
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → origin, Příčina, contributing factor +1
    Subclass of → actor
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 6752, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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