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killed by
person who killed the subject

Description	person who killed subject
Represents	murderer (Q931260), executioner (Q207651)
Data type	Item
Domain	According to this template: person (Q215627), organism (Q7239) According to statements in the property: human (Q5), fictional character (Q95074) or character that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	people (and maybe, in exceptional cases, entities, but probably not) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example	Holofernes (Q625748) → Judith (Q3187975) Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Q43063) → Gavrilo Princip (Q80492) Medusa (Q160730) → Perseus (Q130832) John F. Kennedy (Q9696) → Lee Harvey Oswald (Q48745)
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P157 (Q26250065)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties By value of property Most statements Fewest statements Most sitelinks Most linked wikis Total of sitelinks on items Most identifiers Fewest identifiers Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Map of people by place values: place of birth educated at work location residence place of death place of burial January 1st dates People with date of birth on January 1 People with date of death on January 1 People with both dates on January 1 Database reports/Constraint violations/P157 Map Random list
Living people protection class	property likely to be challenged (Q44597997)
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 15,123 Main statement 14,416 95.3% of uses Qualifier 696 4.6% of uses Reference 11 <0.1% of uses
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Value type “human (Q5), fictional character (Q95074), organization (Q43229), group of fictional characters (Q14514600), mythical character (Q4271324), law enforcement (Q44554), crowd (Q13430821), mythical entity (Q24334685)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31), subclass of (P279) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value human (Q5), fictional character (Q95074), organization (Q43229), group of fictional characters (Q14514600), mythical character (Q4271324), law enforcement (Q44554), crowd (Q13430821), mythical entity (Q24334685) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Infinity Stones (Q4405595)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Value type Q5, Q95074, Q43229, Q14514600, Q4271324, Q44554, Q13430821, Q24334685, SPARQL

Type “human (Q5), fictional character (Q95074), character that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “human (Q5), fictional character (Q95074), character that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Type Q5, Q95074, Q21070598, SPARQL

Item “place of death (P20)”: Items with this property should also have “place of death (P20)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Item P20, search, SPARQL

Item “date of death (P570)”: Items with this property should also have “date of death (P570)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Item P570, SPARQL

Item “manner of death (P1196): homicide (Q149086), death in battle (Q18663901), duel (Q191503), capital punishment (Q8454), accident (Q171558), killing (Q844482), lynching (Q486775), feticide (Q663296), negligent homicide (Q641449), accidental death (Q21142718)”: Items with this property should also have “manner of death (P1196): homicide (Q149086), death in battle (Q18663901), duel (Q191503), capital punishment (Q8454), accident (Q171558), killing (Q844482), lynching (Q486775), feticide (Q663296), negligent homicide (Q641449), accidental death (Q21142718)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Item P1196

Contemporaries:
if [item A] has this property (killed by (P157)) linked to [item B],
then [item A] and [item B] have to coincide or coexist at some point of history. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Contemporary, SPARQL

Citation needed: the property must have at least one reference (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#citation needed

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Scope, SPARQL

Conflicts with “manner of death (P1196): suicide (Q10737)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Conflicts with P1196, hourly updated report, search, SPARQL

This property is being used by: da:Skabelon:Infoboks person, da:Skabelon:Infoboks Wikidata person, da:Skabelon:Infoboks F1 kører, da:Skabelon:Infoboks F1-kører hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Դիցաբանական կերպար, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Աստղային պատերազմների կերպար, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Զանգվածային կոտորածներ eu:Txantiloi:Biografia infotaula automatikoa eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto regantino, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto reganto, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto papo, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto nord-ĝermana dio, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto rolulo, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto kleriko, eo:Ŝablono:Informkesto gravulo commons:Template:Wikidata Infobox gu:ઢાંચો:Wikidata Infobox it:Template:CPU, it:Template:GPU uk:Шаблон:Картка:Міфічний персонаж ca:Plantilla:Infotaula personatge Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Contemporaries:
if [item A] has this property (P157) linked to [item B],
then [item A] and [item B] have to coincide or coexist at some point of history.

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P157#Contemporary, SPARQL

name and alias

I think "killed by" is all that is needed. Assassination only applies to prominent victims such as presidents and heads of state, and killed by covers that anyhow. Danrok (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

That's why the aliases aren't listed as the label. But we need them there for the convenience of people typing into the claim box, especially since this property had like 5 different suggested names at WD:PP. — PinkAmpers&^{(Je vous invite à me parler)} 18:46, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Why not suicide?

I see that people are thinking murder, assassination... but this can work equally well for suicides, can it not, simply by entering the name of the subject for this property? Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:06, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

I suppose it could work but I'm not a big fan of that idea. Murder and suicide are very distinct things. If people write a query to know the list of people killed by Marilyn Monroe, we should return an empty list. Worse yet, if someone hopes to get the list of victims in the Columbine massacre through the query "people killed by Q2268542", all they're going to get is "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold". I think that's a pretty bad outcome. Pichpich (talk) 03:44, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Since Marilyn Monroe killed herself, I don't see why it should return an empty list. But I've stated my argument and won't belabour it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:50, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean by the words "murder" and "suicide" that make them very distinct things in your mind, but the label of this property is "killed by", and the very definition of suicide is a person intentionally killing themselves. In other words, "A killed by A" means "A commited suicide". Therefore, we shouldn't return an empty list for the list of people killed by Marilyn Monroe, and I don't see by what reasoning "people killed by Q2268542" would return only "Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold"; it should return their victims as well as themselves. Silver hr (talk) 01:42, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Use manner of death (P1196) to capture information about suicide. The 'killed by' claim can then trivially be inferred; there's no need to add that kind of redundant information. Emw (talk) 18:46, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Inverse property and qualifiers for this?

I am trying to use this property and I notice you can link a victim to his/her murderer, but you can't link back - we need the inverse property, which I will propose. Also, I think we need some qualifiers for the property (by gunshot, by strangulation, etc) Jane023 (talk) 08:22, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Inventors killed by their own invention

SELECT ?inventor ?inventorLabel ?gadet ?gadgetLabel
WHERE {
  ?inventor wdt:P157 ?gadget .
  ?gadet wdt:P61 ?inventor .
  SERVICE wikibase:label {
    bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "en" .
    ?inventor rdfs:label ?inventorLabel .
    ?gadget rdfs:label ?gadgetLabel .
  }
}

Try it!

--Tobias1984 (talk) 13:19, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Extend this property to organizations

Plenty of times a person is killed by an organization in which there is no identifiable person. Examples include:

• Nikolay Abelman (Q1761095) killed by Black Hundreds (Q940855)
• Osama bin Laden (Q1317) killed by United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (Q963354) and so on.

I think we should include organization (Q43229) en their subclasses as valid values for this property.--Zeroth (talk) 01:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

• Tom Fox (Q1658809) killed by Swords of Righteousness Brigade (Q2925327)--MHM55 (talk) 09:52, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

• Strong +1. Another good example: Category:People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning (Q13282183). ElanHR (talk) 08:27, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done. here.--Zeroth (talk) 21:17, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Death penalty

James Corbitt Q1613613 was hanged by Albert Pierrepoint (Q945914)  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bahnmoeller (talk • contribs) at 22:45, 4 August 2019 (UTC).

Include <type of crash> to manner of death--accident?

Is it not possible to add the type of accidents, e.g., car crash, airplane crash to this killed by (P157), see Zheng Zhenduo (Q6124178)? Thank you. ShiehJ (talk) 15:12, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

shouldn't that use cause of death (P509)? BrokenSegue (talk) 01:19, 7 December 2021 (UTC)