Home › Entities › literary_work › The Three Little Pigs

The Three Little Pigs

fairy tale
VisualArtwork literary_work Q651532
The Three Little Pigs
L. Leslie Brooke · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

The Three Little Pigs is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,552 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Author: James Halliwell-Phillipps[3]
  • Instance of: fable[4]
  • Genre: fable[5]
  • Commons category: Three little pigs[6]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[7]
  • Inception: 1900[8]
  • Publication date: 1853[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The Three Little Pigs[10]
  • Main subject: property damage[11], pig[12], Big Bad Wolf[13]
  • Commons gallery: Three little pigs[14]
  • Title: The Three Little Pigs[15]
  • Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index: 124[16]
  • Copyright status: public domain[17]
  • Form of creative work: short story[18]

Why It Matters

The Three Little Pigs has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

literary work public domain United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . books.google.com. books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . books.google.com. Retrieved . books.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

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). The Three Little Pigs. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-three-little-pigs
MLA “The Three Little Pigs.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 14 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-three-little-pigs.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-three-little-pigs_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The Three Little Pigs}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-three-little-pigs}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): The Three Little Pigs — https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-three-little-pigs (retrieved 2026-10-14)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-three-little-pigs · Last refreshed:

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 · HedgeHog · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'br', 'ca', 'cdo', 'commons', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'eml',
    Sitelink count → 55
    Bookbrainz work id → 03583d05-8219-485b-aba1-929c479409b9
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Bookbrainz work id: 03583d05-8219-485b-aba1-929c479409b9, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/290269|batch #290269]]"
  2. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → three-little-pigs-tale
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: three-little-pigs-tale, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289970240|three little pigs tale (#289970240)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalo"
  3. 22w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Publication date → —
    Author → James Halliwell-Phillipps
    Country of origin → United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||ur */"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.