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assassination

murder of a prominent person
Event type_of_crime Q3882219
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Summary

assassination is a type of crime[1]. assassination ranks in the top 2% of type of crime entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,412 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: deliberate murder[3]
  • Commons category: Assassination[4]
  • Said to be the same as: magnicide[5], political murder[6]
  • Target: public figure[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Assassinations[8]
  • Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[9], New International Encyclopedia[10]
  • Partially coincident with: political murder[11]
  • Has characteristic: location of the assassination[12]
  • Different from: attempted murder[13], murder[14], deliberate murder[15], homicide[16], targeted killing[17]
  • Practiced by: assassin[18], special forces[19]

Why It Matters

assassination has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] assassination is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . 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. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295597
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  2. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Imdb keyword → assassination
    Svkkl authority id → h0002974-atentaty
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  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → attempted murder, murder, deliberate murder +2
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → deliberate murder
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 5650, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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