Translations:Gratisdata:Glossary/21/en

Claim is a piece of data about the entity on the page the claim appears. A claim consists of a property (such as $p276) and either a value (e.g., $q183) or one of the special cases "no value" and "unknown value". A claim can have qualifiers, such as temporal qualifiers saying that the claim is valid within a specific time frame. Compared to triples in the RDF data model, a claim uses a property to express the predicate of a triplet and a value to express the object of a triplet. Claims form part of statements on item pages, where they can be augmented with references and ranks; they can also occur on non-item data pages.