decoy

person, device, or event designed as a distraction meant to fool or divert an automated device, someone, another living being, or some natural process
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decoy

Summary

decoy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (137 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • decoy's image is recorded as Objectes de la Sala Horta i Marjal (27156764466).jpg[2].
  • decoy's GND ID is recorded as 4756643-7[3].
  • decoy's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85036353[4].
  • decoy's subclass of is recorded as mockup[5].
  • decoy's subclass of is recorded as simulacrum[6].
  • decoy's has use is recorded as deception[7].
  • decoy's has use is recorded as misdirection[8].
  • decoy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02455s[9].
  • decoy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Decoys[10].
  • decoy's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • decoy's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • decoy's different from is recorded as trapping[13].
  • decoy's YSO ID is recorded as 4868[14].
  • decoy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779179475[15].
  • decoy's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007545611605171[16].
  • decoy's Lex ID is recorded as attrap[17].
  • decoy's KBpedia ID is recorded as Decoy[18].
  • decoy's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 02779210-n[19].
  • decoy's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779179475[20].
  • decoy's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 46028[21].
  • decoy's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/cc029789-635c-4405-ac21-5f91ecc02f74[22].

Why It Matters

decoy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (137 views/month).[1] decoy has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] decoy is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · InternetArchiveBot bot · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from trapping
    Subclass of
    Subclass of mockup, simulacrum
    Described by source Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P10283]]: C2779179475, Rescuing 1 sources and submitting 0 for archiving. #IABot (v2.0.9.5)"
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