prisoner of war

person who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict
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prisoner of war

Summary

prisoner of war is a military casualty classification[1]. It draws 32,765 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 instance of is recorded as group of humans[5].
  • prisoner of war's main regulatory text is recorded as Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War[6].
  • prisoner of war is a type of prisoner[7].
  • prisoner of war is a type of casualty[8].
  • prisoner of war is a type of legal status[9].
  • prisoner of war's Commons category is recorded as Prisoners of war[10].
  • prisoner of war's has cause is recorded as captivity[11].
  • prisoner of war's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Prisoners of war[12].
  • prisoner of war's Commons gallery is recorded as Prisoner of war[13].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Sytin Military Encyclopedia[16].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[19].
  • prisoner of war's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[20].
  • prisoner of war's topic has template is recorded as Template:POW[21].
  • prisoner of war's has characteristic is recorded as prisoner-of-war medal[22].
  • prisoner of war's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1347[23].
  • prisoner of war's different from is recorded as Q11724164[24].
  • prisoner of war's properties for this type is recorded as P4554[25].
  • prisoner of war's female form of label is recorded as أسيرة حرب[26].
  • prisoner of war's female form of label is recorded as prisonnière de guerre[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include military casualty classification[3], role[4], and group of humans[5]. Recorded subclass of include prisoner[7], casualty[8], and legal status[9].

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 32,765 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 106 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

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

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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.

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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. 19d ago · Putnik · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → karo-belaisvis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: karo-belaisvis"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → prisoners-of-war
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: prisoners-of-war, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289949367|prisoners of war (#289949367)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
  3. 10w ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → military casualty classification, role, group of humans
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q16334295]]"
  4. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0430677-valecne-zajatkyne, h0006262-valecni-zajatci
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ [[Property:P1810]]: válečné zajatkyně, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259620|batch #259620]]"
  5. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0430677-valecne-zajatkyne, h0006262-valecni-zajatci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0430677-valecne-zajatkyne, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  6. 20w 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, group of humans
    + 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"
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