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legend

genre of folklore featuring human actions within history
Intangible literary_genre Q44342
legend
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legend

Summary

legend is a literary genre[1]. legend ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,423 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • legend's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • legend's instance of is recorded as fiction genre[4].
  • legend's instance of is recorded as narrative form[5].
  • legend's instance of is recorded as Wikibase reason for deprecated rank[6].
  • legend is a type of work of fiction[7].
  • legend is a type of traditional story[8].
  • legend's Commons category is recorded as Legends[9].
  • legend's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Legends[10].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[12].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[13].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[15].
  • legend's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[16].
  • legend's partially coincident with is recorded as pourquoi story[17].
  • legend's different from is recorded as myth[18].
  • legend's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Use 'Mythology' - Q9134 - for stories of Gods and fantastic creatures"}[19].
  • legend's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '有关上帝和奇特生物的故事，请使用神话（Q9134）'}[20].
  • legend's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': "Utilisez 'Mythology' - Q9134 - pour des histoires de dieux et de créatures fantastiques"}[21].
  • legend's Wikidata usage instructions is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Mythologie (WikiData-Objekt Q9134) verwenden, wenn es um Götter, fantastische Wesen, etc. geht.'}[22].
  • legend's studied by is recorded as storiology[23].
  • legend's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Narration[24].
  • legend's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include literary genre[3], fiction genre[4], narrative form[5], and Wikibase reason for deprecated rank[6]. Recorded subclass of include work of fiction[7] and traditional story[8].

Why It Matters

legend ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,423 views/month).[2] legend has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] legend is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

folklore Samguk Yusa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives. 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] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: 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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  1. 5d ago · Breogan2008 · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Enciclopedia galega universal id → 143305
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P13613]]: 143305"
  2. 11d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → myth
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → work of fiction, traditional story
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4989, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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