literature

polysemous term referring to a written art form, and the set of all literary works
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Summary

literature is a type of arts[1]. literature draws 17,335 Wikipedia views per month (type of arts category, ranking #8 of 31).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class[3], group of works[4]
  • Subclass of: art[5], class[6], literary work[7]
  • Part of: language arts[8]
  • Commons category: Literature[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Literature[10]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Literature[11]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[15], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[16], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[17], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[18], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], The New Student's Reference Work[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[23]
  • Topic has template: Template:Literature[24]
  • Has characteristic: literary genre[25], literary form[26], literary style[27], mode[28]
  • Different from: Literatūra[29], Literature[30]
  • Studied by: literary criticism[31], literary studies[32], sociology of literature[33], humanities[34]
  • Has part(s) of the class: literary work[35]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[36]
  • Exact match: http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectcode/01010000[37]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q27131939[38]

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Influence

Things named for literature include Twitterature[39], a blend word[40].

Why It Matters

literature has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] literature is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for literature include Twitterature[39], a blend word[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  21. [23] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . 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. 10d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2601
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2601, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327910|literature (#7327910)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 11d ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'avk', 'a
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Literature, WikiProject Writing, WikiProject Books +3
    Sitelink count → 294
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||bi, isv */ import labels from sitelinks"
  3. 22d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 294
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'avk', 'a
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Literature, WikiProject Writing, WikiProject Books +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Literature"
  4. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4bbU9x
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → literature
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: literature, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289941307|literature (#289941307)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  6. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002292-literatura
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002292-literatura, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  7. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by → literary criticism, literary studies, sociology of literature +1
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has characteristic → literary genre, literary form, literary style +1
    Subclass of → art, class, literary work
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 8113, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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