character

fictional human or non-human character in a narrative work of art
Thing literary_element Q95074
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character

Summary

character is a literary element[1]. character ranks in the top 5% of literary_element entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,066 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • character's instance of is recorded as literary element[3].
  • character is a type of fictional entity[4].
  • character is a type of imaginary character[5].
  • character is a type of being[6].
  • character's Commons category is recorded as Fictional characters[7].
  • character's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fictional characters[8].
  • character's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[9].
  • character's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[10].
  • character's partially coincident with is recorded as fictional creature[11].
  • character's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox character[12].
  • character's has characteristic is recorded as given name[13].
  • character's has characteristic is recorded as birthday[14].
  • character's has characteristic is recorded as sex[15].
  • character's has characteristic is recorded as type of fictional character[16].
  • character's main Wikidata property is recorded as P674[17].
  • character's main Wikidata property is recorded as P6249[18].
  • character's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/FictionalCharacter[19].
  • character's different from is recorded as Personnage[20].
  • character's different from is recorded as fictional human[21].
  • character's different from is recorded as figure that may or may not be fictional[22].
  • character's different from is recorded as human[23].
  • character's different from is recorded as fictional person[24].
  • character's different from is recorded as character[25].
  • character's different from is recorded as mythical character[26].
  • character's different from is recorded as hypothetical person[27].

Body

Definition and Type

character's instance of is recorded as literary element[3]. Recorded subclass of include fictional entity[4], imaginary character[5], and being[6].

Influence

Things named for character include Janne Da Arc[28], a musical group[29], founded in 1996[30].

Why It Matters

character ranks in the top 5% of literary_element entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,066 views/month).[2] character has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] character is known by 102 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for character include Janne Da Arc[28], a musical group[29], founded in 1996[30].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . 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. 25d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX6352298
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX6352298"
  2. 8w ago · Superraptor123 · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → fictional entity, imaginary character, being
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q24229398]]"
  3. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → German Brazilians
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q321090, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  4. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → fictitious-characters
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fictitious-characters, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925339|fictitious characters (#289925339)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0205041-fiktivni-postavy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0205041-fiktivni-postavy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  6. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151051586
    Interlingual index id → i87055
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|19 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1273, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  7. 19w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Partially coincident with → fictional creature
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ [[Property:P8814]]: 09610740-n"
  8. 20w ago · Jerimee · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox character
    Model item → Pepper, Doraemon, Yoh Asakura +1
    Instance of → literary element
    Aliases → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q14897293]]"
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