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homicide

killing of a human being by another human being
Class type of: killing, violent death, criminal attempt Q149086
homicide
Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
manner of death, type of crime[5]
Subclass of
killing, violent death, criminal attempt
Described by source
English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa[8][9][10]
Different from
attempted murder, assassination, justifiable homicide, murder, killing[13][14][15][16][17]
Has cause
violence[6]
Has effect
death[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
P14483
a/asesinato
Partially coincident with
death in battle[11]
Time of earliest written record
1752 BC[7]
Wikidata usage instructions
Use as value for "manner of death" (P1196), 用作“死亡方式”（P1196）的值, Utiliser comme valeur pour "mode de mort" (P1196), 死亡状況（P1196）の値として使用[18][19][20][21]
🏷️ Also known as
en homicide en killing ar جريمة قتل ar قتل cs zabití člověka člověkem da manddrab da handling med døden til følge da drabssag da drab de Tötungsdelikt de Handlung mit Todesfolge el ανθρωποκτονία es homicidio es homicida es asesinato es homicidios fa قاتل fi henkirikokset fi henkirikos fr meurtres
🔖 Identifiers · 60
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85061743
OpenAlex ID
C525541732, C3020202945
ABC News topic ID
homicide
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294915613
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
20751
Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID
2112
BBC Things ID
8b64f012-d5f1-40d2-800d-982bd4421a8a
BNCF Thesaurus ID
10408
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13318866c
Booru tag
homicide
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
homicide
Criminological Thesaurus ID
3820
Show all 60 identifiers +48
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152
ELSST Thesaurus ID (Version 4 - 2023)
b1053d77-e845-4882-8ee4-b5b444fb2b30
ERR keyword ID
1286589
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
135685
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
32571
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/homicide
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
homicide
EuroVoc ID
1251
Euronews topic ID
homicide
FAST ID
959660
FactGrid item ID
Santa Rosa
Freebase ID
/m/0x2fg
GSSO ID
005365
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
homicidi
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0114835
Harper's tag
homicide
Hindustan Times topic ID
homicide
IMDb keyword
homicide
IPTC NewsCode
mediatopic/20000099
IdRef ID
027616185
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
homicide
Jewish Encyclopedia ID
7841
KBpedia ID
KillingPerson
MIL-STD-2525 Symbol Identification Code
10014000001101080000
MeSH descriptor ID
D006708
MeSH tree code
I01.198.240.470, I01.880.735.344
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
525541732
Museum-digital tag ID
11163
Namuwiki ID
살인
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007565423405171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX525412
New York Post topic ID
homicide
NicoNicoPedia ID
殺人
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3999672
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
殺人
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
cinayet
The Advocate tag ID
homicide
The Independent topic ID
homicide
Thesaurus Sozialwissenschaften ID
10040643
Topic's main category
Category:Homicide
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
91543
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept6841
Vikidia article ID
fr:Homicide
YSA ID
Y101603
YSO ID
1506
Yale LUX ID
activity/dac672d4-641b-4b33-967c-6c4e6228c8c5
Yle topic ID
18-213782, 18-283228
Zhihu topic ID
19623430

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🔗 Connections
← Manner of death 4352
Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Julius Caesar, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Archimedes, Alexander Pushkin, Che Guevara +4344 more
← Significant event 96
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Examples 56
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Subtypes 25
capital punishment, murder, honor killing, human sacrifice, assisted dying, summary execution, suicide by cop, execution +17 more
← Main subject 21
The Hunger Games, Interview with the Vampire, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Machinist, Wild Tales, The Northman, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Blue Steel +13 more
← Convicted of 16
Maximilien Robespierre, Manuel Noriega, Aileen Wuornos, Günter Schabowski, Masahiko Amakasu, Basanta Kumar Biswas, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, Daniel Rendón Herrera +8 more
← Category combines topics 13
Category:Assassinated people, Category:Murder by country, Category:Assassinated monarchs, Category:Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Category:Assassinated heads of state, Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks, Category:Films about murder, Category:Assassinated people by nationality +5 more
Different from 4
murder, assassination, attempted murder, killing
← Depicts 4
Don't Worry Darling, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Judith Slaying Holofernes, Judith Beheading Holofernes
← Different from 4
murder, assassination, attempted murder, killing
← Has cause 3
death, dying, Maëlys case
Belongs to 2
hate crime, manner of death
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa
Subclass of 2
criminal attempt, killing
← Charge 2
Santiago de Compostela derailment, Assassination of Guillem Agulló i Salvador
FactGrid item ID 1
Santa Rosa
Has cause 1
violence
Has effect 1
death
Instance of 1
manner of death
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Topic's main category 1
Category:Homicide
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Homicide
← Has part(s) of the class 1
serial murder
← Occupation 1
Veerappan
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Summary

homicide is a manner of death[1]. homicide is a type of killing[2], violent death[3], and criminal attempt[4].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. 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. 12w ago · DataDataWeb · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → homicide
    Partially coincident with → death in battle
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Partially coincident with: death in battle"
  2. 15w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish Encyclopedia ID → 7841
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish Encyclopedia ID: 7841, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167479860|HOMICIDE (#167479860)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] "
  3. 22w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → a/asesinato
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14483: a/asesinato, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/290443827|Asesinato (#290443827)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7927|Enciclopedia Cató"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → killing, violent death, criminal attempt
    Has effect → death
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ YSO ID: 1506, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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