marriage

social union or legal contract between people called spouses that creates kinship
Organization legal_institution Q8445
marriage
Sir Iain · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

marriage

Summary

marriage is a legal institution[1]. marriage has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • marriage's instance of is recorded as legal institution[3].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as nominal kinship[4].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as occurrence[5].
  • marriage's instance of is recorded as institution[6].
  • marriage followed engagement[7].
  • marriage followed wedding[8].
  • marriage was followed by legal separation[9].
  • marriage is a type of intimate relationship[10].
  • marriage's Commons category is recorded as Marriage[11].
  • marriage's said to be the same as is recorded as married[12].
  • marriage's said to be the same as is recorded as marriage[13].
  • marriage is the opposite of not married[14].
  • marriage is the opposite of divorce[15].
  • marriage's Unicode character is recorded as ⚭[16].
  • marriage comprises marital debt[17].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Marriage[18].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Q106841531[19].
  • marriage's topic's main category is recorded as Q9708406[20].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as religion[21].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as sexual morality[22].
  • marriage's facet of is recorded as procreation[23].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Bridal allegory room[24].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Fragment of a sarcophagus with wedding scenes[25].
  • marriage's depicted by is recorded as Manuscript Leaf with Marriage Scene, from Decretals of Gregory IX[26].
  • marriage's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[27].

Body

Identity

Predecessors include engagement[7] and wedding[8]. marriage was followed by legal separation[9].

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for marriage include Legal Marriage[28], a film[29], directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan[30] and marriage in Islam[31], an Islamic term[32].

Why It Matters

marriage has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] marriage is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for marriage include Legal Marriage[28], a film[29], directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan[30] and marriage in Islam[31], an Islamic term[32].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Retrieved . 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.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). marriage. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/marriage
MLA “marriage.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/marriage.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_marriage_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{marriage}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/marriage}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): marriage — https://4ort.xyz/entity/marriage (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/marriage · Last refreshed:

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. 8d ago · Infovarius · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:Marriage, Q106841531, Q9708406
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P910]]: [[Q106841531]]"
  2. 14d ago · PinTweaks · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basisklassifikation 71.22
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ [[Property:P18]]: Marriage symbol.svg, Cleanup: downgrade preferred ranks ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  3. 27d ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of intimate relationship
    Biblissima authority id Q295532
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295532, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  4. 29d ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of legal institution, nominal kinship, occurrence +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q108586636]]"
  5. 4w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id 10432
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 10432, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167481921|MARRIAGE (#167481921)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mi"
  6. 5w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 ['2l7Ely', 'iOddP']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 5w ago · Bayzeit · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483
    Different from union council of Bangladesh
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q49836]]"
  8. 6w ago · EleJur · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id i110316
    P14483
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id 151074842
    Babelnet id 00053107n
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14483]]: s/sacramento-del-matrimonio, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/260063|batch #260063]]"
  9. 6w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id 08005815-n, 13987306-n
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P8814]]: 08005815-n"
  10. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag marriage
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: marriage, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289942336|marriage (#289942336)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  11. 9w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0002085-manzelstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002085-manzelstvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  12. 11w ago · Sd5605 · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Moegirlpedia id 结婚
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P5737]]: 结婚"
  13. 12w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2790, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  14. 15w ago · Sofie Geneea · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb
    Iab code 165
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P5250]]: 165"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.