prisoner of war

person who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict
Thing military_casualty_classification Q179637
prisoner of war
National Museum of the U.S. Navy · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

prisoner of war

Summary

prisoner of war is a military casualty classification[1]. It draws 2,079 Wikipedia views per month (military_casualty_classification category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • prisoner of war's instance of is recorded as military casualty classification[3].
  • prisoner of war's instance of is recorded as role[4].
  • prisoner of war's main regulatory text is recorded as Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War[5].
  • prisoner of war is a type of prisoner[6].
  • prisoner of war is a type of casualty[7].
  • prisoner of war is a type of legal status[8].
  • prisoner of war's Commons category is recorded as Prisoners of war[9].
  • prisoner of war's has cause is recorded as captivity[10].
  • prisoner of war's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prisoners of war[11].
  • prisoner of war's Commons gallery is recorded as Prisoner of war[12].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[15].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[18].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[19].
  • prisoner of war's topic has template is recorded as Template:POW[20].
  • prisoner of war's has characteristic is recorded as prisoner-of-war medal[21].
  • prisoner of war's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1347[22].
  • prisoner of war's different from is recorded as Q11724164[23].
  • prisoner of war's properties for this type is recorded as P4554[24].
  • prisoner of war's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'أسيرة حرب'}[25].
  • prisoner of war's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'prisonnière de guerre'}[26].
  • prisoner of war's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'eo', 'text': 'militkaptitino'}[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include military casualty classification[3] and role[4]. Recorded subclass of include prisoner[6], casualty[7], and legal status[8].

Influence

Things named for prisoner of war include Mount POW/MIA[28], a mountain[29], in United States[30].

Why It Matters

prisoner of war draws 2,079 Wikipedia views per month (military_casualty_classification category, ranking #2 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Mount POW/MIA[28], a mountain[29], in United States[30].

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] . 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

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . 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. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . 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). prisoner of war. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/prisoner-of-war
MLA “prisoner of war.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/prisoner-of-war.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_prisoner-of-war_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{prisoner of war}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/prisoner-of-war}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): prisoner of war — https://4ort.xyz/entity/prisoner-of-war (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/prisoner-of-war · 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. 22d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main regulatory text Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War
    Has cause captivity
    Topic has template Template:POW
    Instance of military casualty classification, role
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 16759, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.