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rule

prescription, including laws, regulations, instructions, guidelines, and social conventions; determinate method for performing any operation
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Summary

rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (382 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: message[2], artificial object[3]
  • Commons category: Rules[4]
  • Opposite of: exception[5]
  • Has characteristic: regularity[6]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#rule[7], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000055[8], http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#RegulationOrLaw[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C78269[10]
  • Different from: command[11], principle[12], norm[13], rule[14], base[15]
  • Has goal: deference[16]

Why It Matters

rule is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

law Parkinson's law statute treaty

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] ↑ . YAMATO. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Information Artifact Ontology. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . BioTop: A Biomedical Top-Domain Ontology. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . 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. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2180
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2180, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327598|rule (#7327598)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 2d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-set:2| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#RegulationOrLaw, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect BioTop → BioTop: A Biomedical Top-Domain Ontology ([[:t"
  3. 5d ago · Hirho · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → exception
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Opposite of: exception"
  4. 10d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 22
    Equivalent class → http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#rule, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_0000055, http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#RegulationOrLaw
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'cv', 'de', 'eo', 'et', 'io', 'ja', 'sk']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#RegulationOrLaw"
  5. 22d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C0870077
    Nci thesaurus id → C78269
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Nci thesaurus id: C78269"
  6. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → rules
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: rules, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956999|rules (#289956999)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  7. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Has characteristic → regularity
    Subclass of → —
    Has goal → deference
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 12572, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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