funeral

ceremony for a person who has died
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funeral

Summary

funeral ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,703 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • funeral is a type of rite[2].
  • funeral is a type of ceremony[3].
  • funeral is part of funeral rite[4].
  • funeral's Commons category is recorded as Funerals[5].
  • funeral comprises burial[6].
  • funeral comprises cremation[7].
  • funeral comprises burial at sea[8].
  • funeral comprises unmarked grave[9].
  • funeral comprises burial tree[10].
  • funeral comprises funeral invoice[11].
  • funeral comprises coffin[12].
  • funeral comprises tombstone[13].
  • funeral comprises hearse[14].
  • funeral comprises funeral procession[15].
  • funeral's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Funerals[16].
  • funeral's Commons gallery is recorded as Funeral[17].
  • funeral's depicted by is recorded as Funeral of St. Jerome[18].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[19].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[22].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[24].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Dictionnaire Infernal[25].
  • funeral's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include rite[2] and ceremony[3].

Use and Application

Components include burial[6], an occurrence[27], founded in -100000[28]; cremation[7], a disposal of human corpses[29]; burial at sea[8], a burial method[30]; unmarked grave[9]; burial tree[10]; and funeral invoice[11], an invoice[31]. funeral is part of funeral rite[4].

Influence

Things named for funeral include funeral potatoes[32].

Why It Matters

funeral ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,703 views/month).[1] funeral has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] funeral is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for funeral include funeral potatoes[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 24d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14870 → ont00001215
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53024|batch #53024]]"
  2. 25d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → rite, ceremony
    Equivalent class → https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001215
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q2627975]]"
  3. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → funeral, funeral-customs-and-rites, funeral-rites-and-ceremonies
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: funeral, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929186|funeral (#289929186)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Bull
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295197, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0000371-pohrby, h0007947-pohrebni-obrady
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000371-pohrby, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  6. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +10
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||3 */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia refs; remove redundant reference URL (P854) ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  7. 18w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → e/exequias
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14483]]: e/exequias, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779859433286"
  8. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 966, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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