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mass murder

act of killing a large number of people by non-state actors
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Summary

mass murder is a type of crime[1]. It draws 9,700 Wikipedia views per month (type of crime category, ranking #7 of 61).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: murder[3], delict[4]
  • Commons category: Massacres[5]
  • Said to be the same as: massacre[6], multiple murder[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mass murder[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox mass murder[9]
  • Has characteristic: place of mass murder[10]
  • Different from: spree killing[11], mass killing[12], genocide[13]
  • Practiced by: mass murderer[14]

Why It Matters

mass murder has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Elizabeth Báthory Federico García Lorca Igor Girkin Moussa Traoré

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . 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. 6d ago · Jeuwre · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb'
    Sitelink count → 61
    Pronunciation audio → De-Massenmord.ogg
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Pronunciation audio: De-Massenmord.ogg"
  2. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → mass-murder
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: mass-murder, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289942787|mass murder (#289942787)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0003448-masove-vrazdy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0003448-masove-vrazdy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → massacre, multiple murder
    Has characteristic → place of mass murder
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → murder, delict
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4076, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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