goal

idea of the future or result that a person or group wants to achieve
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goal
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Summary

goal ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,811 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: condition[2], intention[3]
  • Has use: goal pursuit[4]
  • Commons category: Goals[5]
  • Opposite of: means[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Goal[7]
  • Facet of: planning[8]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9], Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia[10]
  • Has effect: intention[11], purpose[12]
  • Has characteristic: desirability[13]
  • Main Wikidata property: P3712[14]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Goal[15]
  • Different from: Mieta[16], result[17], prison[18], purpose[19], means[20], goal[21]
  • Fabrication method: goal setting[22]
  • Hashtag: goals[23]

Why It Matters

goal has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] goal is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . DOLCE+DnS Ultralite. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . 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. 20h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'cs', 'cv', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', '
    Sitelink count → 70
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Goal
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#Goal"
  2. 21d ago · KimKelting · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Mieta, result, prison +3
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Different from: goal, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Mieta, result, prison +3
    Facet of → planning
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → condition, intention
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ Yso id: 2747, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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