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corporal punishment

punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person
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corporal punishment
Hans Holbein the Younger · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

corporal punishment ranks in the top 0.17% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,437 views/month, #133 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: punishment[2]
  • Commons category: Corporal punishments[3]
  • Has part(s): flogging[4], spanking[5], flagellation[6], human branding[7], mutilation[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Corporal punishment[9], Category:Corporal punishments[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Pauly–Wissowa[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[14], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15]
  • Different from: capital punishment[16]
  • Uses: equipment for corporal punishment[17]
  • Has goal: pain[18], humiliation[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Human rights[20]
  • Copyright status: public domain[21]
  • WordLift URL: http://data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/corporal_punishment[22]

Why It Matters

corporal punishment has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Q24488178. wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . medicalrecords.com. medicalrecords.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . 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. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 008544
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'az', 'ca', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 008544, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157145299|corporal punishment (#157145299)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, "
  2. 6w ago · Reinheitsgebot bot · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright status → public domain
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Pauly–Wissowa, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +3
    Has goal → pain, humiliation
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Copyright status: public domain, #quickstatements; WikiFlix C1: pre-1900 film, PD by age; invoked by wikiflix"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0211078-telesne-tresty
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0211078-telesne-tresty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  4. 21w ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → corporal-punishment
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: corporal-punishment, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289917511|corporal punishment (#289917511)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
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