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Medal of Honor

highest award for valor by an individual serving in the Armed Forces of the United States
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Medal of Honor

Summary

Medal of Honor is a courage award[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of courage_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,096 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Medal of Honor is in the country of United States[3].
  • Medal of Honor's instance of is recorded as courage award[4].
  • Medal of Honor's instance of is recorded as medallion[5].
  • Medal of Honor's instance of is recorded as military decoration[6].
  • Medal of Honor's founder is recorded as United States Congress[7].
  • Medal of Honor is made of bronze[8].
  • Medal of Honor is a type of awards and decorations of the United States military[9].
  • Medal of Honor's archives at is recorded as National Personnel Records Center[10].
  • July 12, 1862 marks the founding of Medal of Honor[11].
  • Medal of Honor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Medal of Honor[12].
  • Medal of Honor's described at URL is recorded as https://valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Army-Medal-of-Honor-Recipients/[13].
  • Medal of Honor's conferred by is recorded as President of the United States[14].
  • Medal of Honor's quantity is recorded as {'amount': '+3525'}[15].
  • Medal of Honor's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Medal of Honor'}[16].
  • Medal of Honor's motto text is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Valor'}[17].
  • Medal of Honor's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Medal of Honor'}[18].
  • Medal of Honor's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'MOH'}[19].
  • Medal of Honor's different from is recorded as Medal of Honor[20].
  • Medal of Honor's different from is recorded as Medals of Honor[21].
  • Medal of Honor's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor[22].
  • Medal of Honor's next lower rank is recorded as Distinguished Service Cross[23].
  • Medal of Honor's derivative work is recorded as Medal of Honor flag[24].

Body

Material and Period

Medal of Honor is made of bronze[8].

Why It Matters

Medal of Honor ranks in the top 1% of courage_award entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,096 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Alvin York Audie Murphy Buffalo Bill Charles Lindbergh Daniel Inouye Desmond Doss Douglas MacArthur Jimmy Doolittle Mary Edwards Walker Richard E. Byrd Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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] ↑ . certificate. 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] ↑ . tioh.army.mil. tioh.army.mil. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Quantity → {'amount': '+3525'}
    Made from material → bronze
    Derivative work → Medal of Honor flag
    Instance of → courage award, medallion, military decoration
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007560504405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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