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Ride the Lightning

song by Metallica
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q4048304
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Ride the Lightning

Summary

Ride the Lightning is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ride the Lightning's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Ride the Lightning's composer is recorded as James Hetfield[4].
  • Ride the Lightning's genre is recorded as thrash metal[5].
  • Ride the Lightning's performer is recorded as Metallica[6].
  • Ride the Lightning's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05mmh2[7].
  • Ride the Lightning's lyricist is recorded as James Hetfield[8].
  • Ride the Lightning's different from is recorded as Ride the Lightning[9].
  • Ride the Lightning's form of creative work is recorded as song[10].

Why It Matters

Ride the Lightning ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

Related Entities

James Hetfield Metallica

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Ride the Lightning. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/ride-the-lightning-q4048304
MLA “Ride the Lightning.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/ride-the-lightning-q4048304.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ride-the-lightning-q4048304_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Ride the Lightning}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ride-the-lightning-q4048304}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Ride the Lightning — https://4ort.xyz/entity/ride-the-lightning-q4048304 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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