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fan death

South Korean misconception relating to the use of electric fans
Organization superstition Q303331
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fan death

Summary

fan death is a superstition[1]. It draws 514 Wikipedia views per month (superstition category, ranking #7 of 17).[2]

Key Facts

  • fan death is in the country of South Korea[3].
  • fan death's instance of is recorded as superstition[4].
  • fan death's instance of is recorded as urban legend[5].
  • fan death's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05thll[6].
  • fan death's main subject is recorded as electric fan[7].
  • fan death's main subject is recorded as fan appliance[8].
  • fan death's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '선풍기 사망설'}[9].
  • fan death's Quora topic ID is recorded as Fan-Death[10].
  • fan death's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778970660[11].
  • fan death's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 선풍기 사망설[12].

Why It Matters

fan death draws 514 Wikipedia views per month (superstition category, ranking #7 of 17).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

South Korea

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fan-death_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fan death}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fan-death}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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