family

group of people affiliated by consanguinity, law, affinity, or co-residence
Thing type_of_social_group Q8436
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family

Summary

family is a type of social group[1]. family draws 8,873 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_social_group category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • family's instance of is recorded as type of social group[3].
  • familia is named after family[4].
  • family is a type of group of humans[5].
  • family is a type of kindred[6].
  • family is a type of institution[7].
  • family is a type of being[8].
  • family is a type of collective agent[9].
  • family's Commons category is recorded as Families[10].
  • family's Unicode character is recorded as 👪[11].
  • family comprises man[12].
  • family comprises woman[13].
  • family comprises children[14].
  • family comprises family member[15].
  • family's has cause is recorded as starting a family[16].
  • family's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Family[17].
  • family's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Family[18].
  • family's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[19].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[20].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[22].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[24].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[25].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[26].
  • family's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27].

Body

Definition and Type

family's instance of is recorded as type of social group[3]. Recorded subclass of include group of humans[5], kindred[6], institution[7], being[8], and collective agent[9].

Origins

familia is named after family[4].

Use and Application

Components include man[12], woman[13], children[14], and family member[15].

Influence

Things named for family include family name[28], a name particle[29]; International Day of Families[30], a world day[31], founded in 1993[32]; Family Dollar[33], a business[34], in United States[35], founded in 1959[36]; homeland[37]; and Washington Family[38], a magazine[39], headquartered in Columbia[40].

Why It Matters

family draws 8,873 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_social_group category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] family has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] family is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for family include family name[28], a name particle[29]; International Day of Families[30], a world day[31], founded in 1993[32]; Family Dollar[33], a business[34], in United States[35], founded in 1959[36]; homeland[37]; and Washington Family[38], a magazine[39], headquartered in Columbia[40].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. Retrieved . etymonline.com. Provenance: 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
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [37] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [40] . 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. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by sociology of the family
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject Human rights, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has characteristic family structure, family values, family tradition
    Subclass of group of humans, kindred, institution +2
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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