genre

category of creative works based on stylistic, thematic or technical criteria
Thing metaclass Q483394
genre
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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genre

Summary

genre is a metaclass[1]. genre ranks in the top 3% of metaclass entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,247 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • genre's instance of is recorded as metaclass[3].
  • genre's instance of is recorded as type of classification[4].
  • genre is a type of category[5].
  • genre's Commons category is recorded as Genre[6].
  • genre's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Genres[7].
  • genre's described by source is recorded as Literary Encyclopedia 1929—1939[8].
  • genre's described by source is recorded as Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[9].
  • genre's used by is recorded as by genre[10].
  • genre's has characteristic is recorded as Q140354262[11].
  • genre's has characteristic is recorded as subgenre[12].
  • genre's main Wikidata property is recorded as P136[13].
  • genre's native label is recorded as genre[14].
  • genre's different from is recorded as subgenre[15].
  • genre's different from is recorded as art style[16].
  • genre's different from is recorded as artistic technique[17].
  • genre's different from is recorded as book form[18].
  • genre's properties for this type is recorded as P921[19].
  • genre's properties for this type is recorded as P136[20].
  • genre's has list is recorded as list of genres[21].
  • genre's exact match is recorded as http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/genre/[22].
  • genre's exact match is recorded as https://schema.org/genre[23].
  • genre's exact match is recorded as http://purl.org/ontology/po/Genre[24].
  • genre's is metaclass for is recorded as creative work[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include metaclass[3] and type of classification[4]. genre is a type of category[5].

Use and Application

genre's used by is recorded as by genre[10].

Why It Matters

genre ranks in the top 3% of metaclass entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,247 views/month).[2] genre has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] genre is known by 71 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

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] ↑ . 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.

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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Edit History

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. 22d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → category
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q64549097]]"
  2. 26d ago · WG0uMSn0dJm5lfrWbgoi · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → category
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q16889133]]"
  3. 10w ago · Circeus · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → Q140354262, subgenre
    Used by → by genre
    Instance of → metaclass, type of classification
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1535]]: [[Q42903116]]"
  4. 14w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → Q140354262, subgenre
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1552]]: [[Q140354262]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Iab code → SPSHQ5
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|16 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 17134, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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