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urban legend

form of modern folklore
Intangible genre Q189349
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Summary

urban legend is a genre[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,348 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: legend[3]
  • Part of: urban culture[4]
  • Commons category: Urban legends[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Urban legends[6]
  • Described by source: Lexicon van de jeugdliteratuur[7]
  • Partially coincident with: common misconception[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Urban legends[9]
  • Different from: rumor[10]
  • Properties for this type: P921[11], P17[12]
  • Has list: list of urban legends[13], misconceptions about drugs[14], list of urban legends about popular culture[15]
  • Hashtag: UrbanLegend[16], UrbanLegends[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Narration[18]

Why It Matters

urban legend has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 157 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

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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] ↑ . dbnl.org. Retrieved . dbnl.org. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 15d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Ndl authority id: 01182395"
  2. 18d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'az', 'azb', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'diq', 'el'
    Gnd id → 7501324-1
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  3. 15w ago · Trivialist · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hashtag → UrbanLegend, UrbanLegends
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||vi, zh-hans */ Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs; normalize text; remove alias=label/mul; add external ID to reference ([[User:Difool/WikidataClea"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0263286-famy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0263286-famy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 19w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Sewer gator.jpg
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Image: Sewer gator.jpg"
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