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Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ223993
Source-derived summary

KP may refer to:

Arts and media

KP, a recording released by American performer Kyle Patrick

Kim Possible, American animated television series

Komsomolskaya Pravda, a daily Russian newspaper

KP (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper

Businesses and organizations

KP Snacks, a United Kingdom food manufacturer

Kaiser Permanente, a U.S. health maintenance organization

Kerala Police, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India

Kings Point, the US Merchant Marine Academy

Communist Party (Serbia), the communist party of Serbia

Kreni-Promeni, Serbian political party and movement

People

Katy Perry, American singer

Kawan Prather, American record executive

Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer

Ko Wen-je, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor

KP Sharma Oli, Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal

Kumaran Pathmanathan, member of the LTTE

Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player

Places

Cambodia (WMO country code KP)

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan

North Korea (ISO 3166 country code KP)

Kensington Palace, office and residence of some of the British royal family

Castletown KP, a common name for Castletown-Kilpatrick, a village in County Meath, Ireland

Kamptee railway station (station code: KP), Maharashtra, India

In science, technology, and mathematics

Biology and medicine

Keratosis pilaris, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"

keratic precipitate, an inflammatory cellular deposit on the cornea of the eye

Physics and chemistry

Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, describing waves

Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force

KP, the equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures

k·p perturbation theory, for calculating properties of crystalline solids

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

.kp, the Internet domain name for North Korea

KP-bil, or Terrängbil m/42 KP, a Swedish armoured vehicle

Kilopixel (1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution

Kp index, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential

Kripke–Platek set theory, a mathematical axiom system

Kernel panic, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error

k͡p, the voiceless labial–velar plosive

Pentax KP, a 2017 digital SLR camera

Other uses

Kp (digraph), in written language

KP duty "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties

Knight of the Order of St.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “KP” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “KP”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q223993. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Locating named sources
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “KP”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow KP primary sources, KP archive and Wikimedia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from KP” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.