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oil spill

release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity
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oil spill

Summary

oil spill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,137 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • oil spill is a type of environmental disaster[2].
  • oil spill is a type of health and environmental impact of the petroleum industry[3].
  • oil spill is a type of spilling[4].
  • oil spill's Commons category is recorded as Oil spills[5].
  • oil spill's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oil spills[6].
  • oil spill's Commons gallery is recorded as Oil spill[7].
  • oil spill's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox oil spill[8].
  • oil spill's immediate cause of is recorded as oil pollution[9].
  • oil spill's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002061[10].
  • oil spill's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include environmental disaster[2], health and environmental impact of the petroleum industry[3], and spilling[4].

Why It Matters

oil spill ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,137 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). oil spill. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/oil-spill
MLA “oil spill.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/oil-spill.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_oil-spill_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{oil spill}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/oil-spill}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 9d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Immediate cause of → oil pollution
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Oil spills
    Local thumb → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||3 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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