Fictional universes

Scope

The goal of this project is to build good practices related to fictional universes in Wikidata and to express statements and models about them.

Properties

See also list of properties at Wikiproject Narration

For characters, see Properties for fictional characters

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
fictional or mythical analog of	P1074	Item	used to link an entity or class of entities appearing in a creative work with the analogous entity or class of entities in the real world	fictional spacecraft <fictional or mythical analog of> spacecraft	-
inspired by	P941	Item	artistic inspiration and inspired: work, human, place or event which inspired this creative work or fictional entity	The Matrix <inspired by> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	-
from narrative universe	P1080	Item	fictional universe: subject's fictional entity is in the object narrative. See also P1441 (present in work) and P1445 (fictional universe described in)	Mordor <from narrative universe> Tolkien's legendarium	-
present in work	P1441	Item	work: this (fictional or fictionalized) entity, place, or person appears in that work as part of the narration (use P2860 for works citing other works, P361/P1433 for works being part of other works, P1343 for entities described in non-fictional accounts)	Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina <present in work> The Seagull	characters
takes place in fictional universe	P1434	Item	fictional universe: the subject is a work describing a fictional universe, i.e. whose plot occurs in this universe	Firefly <takes place in fictional universe> Serenityverse	fictional universe described in
fictional universe described in	P1445	Item	work and fictional universe: to link a fictional universe with a work that describes it: <universe> "described in the work:" <work>	Serenityverse <fictional universe described in> Firefly	takes place in fictional universe
home world	P1165	Item	fictional location: home planet or natural satellite for a fictional character or species	Romulan <home world> Romulus	-
narrative location	P840	Item	narrative location: the narrative of the work is set in this location	Paul et Virginie <narrative location> Mauritius Island	-
main subject	P921	Item	topic, matter and subject: primary topic of a work (see also P180: depicts)	Marina <main subject> Rocco Granata	statement is subject of
first appearance	P4584	Item	first appearance: work in which a fictional/mythical character or entity first appeared	Sherlock Holmes <first appearance> A Study in Scarlet	-
narrative age	P6249	Quantity	fictional character: age of a fictional character (use qualifiers like P10663 (applies to work) to restrict the age to a certain work)	Bart Simpson <narrative age> 10 years old	-

Important items

fictional entity (Q14897293) : The root of the fictional entity class tree. Any fictional event, character or object should be an instance of it, that's the case if there is an instance of (P31) statement to any class in the following tree:
⟨fictional entity⟩ on wikidata tree visualisation (external tool)(depth=1)

This tree must be disjoint with the real entities tree to prevent fictional entities to show up in queries when only real one are wanted. In other words, no fictional entity subclass should also be a subclass of a real entity class, and vice versa.

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Notes about fictional universes

Useful queries

#How many objects belongs to specific fictional universe?
SELECT ?value ?valueLabel ?ct ?sampleitem ?sampleitemLabel
WHERE
{
  {
    SELECT ?value (count(*) as ?ct) (SAMPLE(?item) as ?sampleitem)
    WHERE
    {
      ?item wdt:P1080 ?value
    }
    GROUP BY ?value
    ORDER BY DESC(?ct)
  }
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en" }
}
ORDER BY DESC(?ct) ASC(?value)

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Wikidata:WikiProject Fictional universes

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