blackmail

coercion based on threat of revealing information
Event type_of_crime Q34284
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blackmail

Summary

blackmail is a type of crime[1]. blackmail draws 1,212 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #20 of 61).[2]

Key Facts

  • blackmail's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].
  • blackmail is a type of coercion[4].
  • blackmail is a type of extortion[5].
  • blackmail's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Blackmail[6].
  • blackmail's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • blackmail's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[8].
  • blackmail's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • blackmail's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[10].
  • blackmail's partially coincident with is recorded as extortion[11].
  • blackmail's different from is recorded as Blackmail[12].
  • blackmail's uses is recorded as threat[13].

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Context

blackmail's instance of is recorded as type of crime[3].

Why It Matters

blackmail draws 1,212 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_crime category, ranking #20 of 61).[2] blackmail has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] blackmail is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of
    Instance of
    Uses threat
    Different from Blackmail
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007562803705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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