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past

events that occurred before a given time point
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Summary

past draws 1,861 Wikipedia views per month (temporal entity category, ranking #3 of 4).[1]

Key Facts

  • Followed by: present[2]
  • Subclass of: relative time interval[3]
  • Part of: time[4]
  • Commons category: Past[5]
  • Opposite of: future[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Past[7]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Past[8]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C25609[9]
  • Different from: Q33056852[10]
  • Studied by: historical science[11]
  • Does not have characteristic: recency[12]

Why It Matters

past has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] past is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). past. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/past
MLA “past.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 18 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/past.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_past_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{past}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/past}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-18}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): past — https://4ort.xyz/entity/past (retrieved 2026-10-18)

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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. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Umls cui → C1444637
    Nci thesaurus id → C25609
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Nci thesaurus id: C25609"
  2. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → relative time interval
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Past"
  3. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: temporal entity"
  4. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl
    Svkkl authority id → 0450054-minulost
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Past"
  5. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Does not have characteristic → recency
    Part of → time
    Opposite of → future
    Subclass of → relative time interval
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ Yso id: 17102, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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