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mass murder

act of killing a large number of people by non-state actors
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mass murder

Summary

mass murder is a type of crime[1]. It draws 3,263 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #7 of 61).[2]

Key Facts

  • mass murder's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].
  • mass murder is a type of murder[4].
  • mass murder is a type of delict[5].
  • mass murder's Commons category is recorded as Massacres[6].
  • mass murder's said to be the same as is recorded as massacre[7].
  • mass murder's said to be the same as is recorded as multiple murder[8].
  • mass murder's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mass murder[9].
  • mass murder's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox mass murder[10].
  • mass murder's has characteristic is recorded as place of mass murder[11].
  • mass murder's different from is recorded as spree killing[12].
  • mass murder's different from is recorded as mass killing[13].
  • mass murder's different from is recorded as genocide[14].
  • mass murder's practiced by is recorded as mass murderer[15].

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Context

mass murder's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].

Why It Matters

mass murder draws 3,263 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #7 of 61).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Elizabeth Báthory Federico García Lorca Igor Girkin Moussa Traoré

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → massacre, multiple murder
    Has characteristic → place of mass murder
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → murder, delict
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4076, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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