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prosopagnosia

inability to recognize familiar faces
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q244438
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Summary

prosopagnosia is a class of disease[1]. prosopagnosia ranks in the top 2% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,409 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: cognitive disorder[3], associative agnosia[4], agnosia[5], disease[6]
  • Commons category: Prosopagnosia[7]
  • Afflicts: human[8]
  • Anatomical location: face perception[9]
  • Prevalence: 0.025[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C85031[11]
  • Health specialty: neurology[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_4970[13], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:4970[14], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0010528[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[16]

Why It Matters

prosopagnosia has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] prosopagnosia is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Chuck Close disease Hubert Dreyfus Jane Goodall Luciano De Crescenzo neurology Oliver Sacks Paul Dirac Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Stephen Fry Thierry Lhermitte Tom Stoppard Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). prosopagnosia. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/prosopagnosia
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_prosopagnosia_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{prosopagnosia}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/prosopagnosia}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → TkpZ8
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  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → cognitive disorder, associative agnosia, agnosia +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Prevalence → {'amount': '+0.025'}
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → cognitive disorder, associative agnosia, agnosia +1
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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