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negligence

failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in like circumstances
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Summary

negligence is a tort[1]. negligence draws 2,573 Wikipedia views per month (tort category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: legal term or legal concept[3]
  • Subclass of: operational risk[4], oversight[5]
  • Part of: fault[6]
  • Opposite of: diligence[7]
  • Has part(s): mens rea[8], Negligence in employment[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Law of negligence[10]
  • Facet of: tort law[11]
  • Described by source: English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[15]
  • Different from: criminal negligence[16]

Why It Matters

negligence has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] negligence is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 006574
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 006574, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157143393|negligence (#157143393)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, and Sexua"
  2. 12d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 44
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ remove badge intentional sitelink to redirect from jawiki sitelink; sitelink points to a non-redirect page #msynbotTask10"
  3. 27d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → fault
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: fault"
  4. 27d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → mens rea, Negligence in employment
    Library of congress authority id → sh85090636
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): Negligence in employment"
  5. 29d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Library of congress authority id → sh85090636
    Ndl authority id → 00565120
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Ndl authority id: 00565120"
  6. 6w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 120490233
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bibliothèque nationale de france id: 120490233"
  7. 12w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → negligence
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: negligence, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952101|negligence (#289952101)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  8. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0292355-nedbalost
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0292355-nedbalost, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  9. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → tort law
    Instance of → tort, legal term or legal concept
    Opposite of → diligence
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007562891905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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