fiction

genre and narrative form, in any medium, consisting of people, events, or places that are imaginary—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact
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fiction

Summary

fiction is an art genre[1]. fiction ranks in the top 8% of art_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,074 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • fiction's instance of is recorded as art genre[3].
  • fiction's Commons category is recorded as Fiction[4].
  • fiction is the opposite of non-fiction[5].
  • fiction comprises work of fiction[6].
  • fiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fiction[7].
  • fiction's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • fiction's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • fiction's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[10].
  • fiction's has characteristic is recorded as fiction genre[11].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as creative work[12].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as mythology[13].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as work of fiction[14].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as fiction literature[15].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as fictional creative work[16].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as fiction[17].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as xiaoshuo[18].
  • fiction's different from is recorded as literary work[19].
  • fiction's hashtag is recorded as fiction[20].
  • fiction's exact match is recorded as http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectcode/01010001[21].
  • fiction's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[22].
  • fiction's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].

Body

Definition and Type

fiction's instance of is recorded as art genre[3]. fiction is the opposite of non-fiction[5].

Use and Application

fiction comprises work of fiction[6].

Influence

Things named for fiction include pulp fiction[24], a literary genre[25].

Why It Matters

fiction ranks in the top 8% of art_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,074 views/month).[2] fiction has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] fiction is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Entities named for fiction include pulp fiction[24], a literary genre[25].

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.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: 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.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] . 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. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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