legislation

product of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating law by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body; publication type
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legislation

Summary

legislation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,765 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • legislation is a type of statute[2].
  • legislation is a type of legal act[3].
  • legislation is a type of regulation[4].
  • legislation is a type of Wikidata items that need to be split[5].
  • legislation is part of statutory law[6].
  • legislation's Commons category is recorded as Legislation[7].
  • legislation comprises Device (Law)[8].
  • legislation's has cause is recorded as legislative process[9].
  • legislation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Legislation[10].
  • legislation's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[11].
  • legislation's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[12].
  • legislation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3014[13].
  • legislation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P9681[14].
  • legislation's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Legislation[15].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as statute[16].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as law[17].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as bill[18].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as lawmaking[19].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P31[20].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P467[21].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P577[22].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P17[23].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P1001[24].
  • legislation's studied by is recorded as Legisprudence[25].
  • legislation's exact match is recorded as https://citationstyles.org/ontology/type/legislation[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include statute[2], legal act[3], regulation[4], and Wikidata items that need to be split[5].

Use and Application

legislation comprises Device (Law)[8]. legislation is part of statutory law[6].

Why It Matters

legislation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,765 views/month).[1] legislation has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] legislation is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . 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. 4d ago · Kinsio · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → statute, legal act, regulation +1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q91615393]]"
  2. 4d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cv', 'cy', 'diq',
    Sitelink count → 48
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||hi, fa */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 8d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14439 → 001372
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Legislation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14439]]: 001372, Moving from [[Q820655]]"
  4. 20d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Device (Law)
    Library of congress authority id → —
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ [[Property:P527]]: [[Q105766440]], разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect [[Q110273170]] → [[Q105766440]] ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/KrBotResolvingRedirect/Q110273170_"
  5. 4w ago · Épico · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P508]]: 6909, Moving to [[Q141270837]]"
  6. 5w ago · Épico · 2026-08-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Constitution of the United States - DPLA - 9ca804144bd5965e9
    Different from → statute, law, bill +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q1725430]]"
  7. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2awjM7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  8. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → legislation
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: legislation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289947581|legislation (#289947581)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  9. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Permanent duplicated item → legislation
    Different from → statute, law, bill +1
    Part of → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13854, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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