parable

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Intangible literary_genre Q208555
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parable

Summary

parable is a literary genre[1]. parable ranks in the top 9% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (399 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • parable's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • parable is a type of narrative[4].
  • parable is a type of folklore[5].
  • parable is a type of metaphor[6].
  • parable is a type of analogy[7].
  • parable's Commons category is recorded as Parables of Jesus Christ[8].
  • parable's Commons category is recorded as Parables[9].
  • parable's said to be the same as is recorded as pritcha[10].
  • parable's said to be the same as is recorded as Q25453447[11].
  • parable's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parables[12].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation (2007 ed.)[13].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[14].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[18].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Literaturoznavcha encyclopædia[19].
  • parable's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[20].
  • parable's different from is recorded as Parabola[21].
  • parable's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Narration[22].
  • parable's P14483 is recorded as p/parabola[23].

Body

Definition and Type

parable's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include narrative[4], folklore[5], metaphor[6], and analogy[7].

Influence

Things named for parable include Doubt: A Parable[24], a literary work[25], written by John Patrick Shanley[26].

Why It Matters

parable ranks in the top 9% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (399 views/month).[2] parable has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] parable is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Entities named for parable include Doubt: A Parable[24], a literary work[25], written by John Patrick Shanley[26].

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.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . 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. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . 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. 4h ago · Charp238 · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Cathopedia article id → Parabola
    Sitelink count → 64
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P12288]]: Parabola"
  2. 9d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → p/parabola
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P14483]]: t/tema-parabola, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275195|batch #275195]]"
  3. 11d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → p/parabola
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14483]]: t/tema-parabola"
  4. 12d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → p/parabola
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14483]]: p/parabola"
  5. 8w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → parables
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: parables, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289951568|parables (#289951568)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  6. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → AOW
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q296031, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  7. 10w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 11898
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 11898, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167483099|PARABLE (#167483099)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0226659-podobenstvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0226659-podobenstvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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