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Summary

index case ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • index case's followed by is recorded as community spread[2].
  • index case's subclass of is recorded as patient[3].
  • index case's subclass of is recorded as medical case[4].
  • index case's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fn8vc[5].
  • index case's facet of is recorded as epidemiology[6].
  • index case's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0521342[7].
  • index case's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1677[8].
  • index case's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1660[9].
  • index case's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as pasient_null[10].
  • index case's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject COVID-19[11].
  • index case's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.apocalypse:Нулевой_пациент[12].
  • index case's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 447327[13].
  • index case's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/PatientZero[14].
  • index case's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 10222473-n[15].
  • index case's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C447327[16].
  • index case's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as cas-index[17].

Why It Matters

index case ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (406 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_index-case_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{index case}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/index-case}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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