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due diligence

investigation or exercise of care that a reasonable business or person is normally expected to take before entering into an agreement or contract with another party or an act with a certain standard of care
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due diligence

Summary

due diligence is a legal term or legal concept[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,560 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • due diligence's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • due diligence is a type of risk control[4].
  • due diligence's facet of is recorded as audit[5].
  • due diligence's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6].
  • due diligence's different from is recorded as due diligence defence[7].

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Designation and Status

due diligence's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].

Why It Matters

due diligence ranks in the top 4% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,560 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

audit

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → audit
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → risk control
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4380, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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