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patient

grammar: participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out
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Summary

patient is a grammatical aspect[1]. patient has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: undergoer[3], proto-patient[4]
  • Said to be the same as: theme[5]
  • Opposite of: agent[6]
  • Facet of: grammar[7]
  • Partially coincident with: object[8]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicrole.owl#Patient[9], http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#PatientRole[10], http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Patient[11]
  • Short name: P[12]
  • Different from: direct object[13]

Why It Matters

patient is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

grammar

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . A Hierarchical Unification of LIRICS and VerbNet Semantic Roles. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . VerbNet. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Ontologies of Linguistic Annotation. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Q141703392. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . eva.mpg.de. Retrieved . eva.mpg.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_patient-q170212_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{patient}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/patient-q170212}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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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. 16h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#PatientRole, http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Patient
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Patient"
  2. 1d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → grammatical aspect
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: thematic relation"
  3. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#PatientRole, http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Patient
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#PatientRole"
  4. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 22
    Wikipedia languages → ['br', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fi', 'gv', 'kk', 'ko', 'mk', 'ml', 'ms', 'nl', 'nn', '
    Equivalent class → http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicro, http://purl.org/olia/olia.owl#PatientRole, http://galoes.org/ontologies/occult.owl#Patient
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/verbnet/thematicrole.owl#Patient"
  5. 17w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → theme
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → undergoer, proto-patient
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: proto-patient"
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