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Western

multimedia genre of stories set primarily in the American Old West
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Western
Chicago ; New York : Harold Rossiter Music Co., publisher. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

Western is a fiction genre[1]. Western draws 8,285 Wikipedia views per month (fiction genre category, ranking #11 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: artistic theme[3]
  • Subclass of: fiction[4]
  • Commons category: Western fiction[5]
  • Country of origin: United States[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Western (genre)[7]
  • Main subject: Wild West[8]
  • Topic has template: Template:Western (genre)[9]
  • Native label: Western[10]
  • Different from: history of art in Europe[11], Western painting[12]
  • Has list: list of Western subgenres[13]
  • Social media followers: 18,408[14]

Why It Matters

Western has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Western is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Adam West Akim Tamiroff Alan Ladd Angie Dickinson Anthony Franciosa Anthony Quinn Arthur Kennedy Barbara Stanwyck Brian Keith Broderick Crawford Bud Spencer Burt Reynolds Carroll O'Connor Charles Bickford Charles Bronson Charles Coburn Chuck Connors Claire Trevor Claudia Cardinale Cliff Robertson Cornel Wilde Danny Glover David Janssen Dean Jagger Debra Paget DeForest Kelley Donald Pleasence Ed Asner Ed Begley Edgar Rice Burroughs

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  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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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Western. Retrieved October 11, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/western
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_western_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Western}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/western}, 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. 18h ago · Turcoscandinavo · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'az', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv',
    Sitelink count → 58
    De agostini id → western
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ De agostini id: western"
  2. 7w ago · Hyju · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Western fiction
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Commons category: Western fiction"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → fiction genre, artistic theme
    Country of origin → —
    Has list → list of Western subgenres
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1910744
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 6185, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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