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spotlight

lighting device which projects a bright beam of light
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spotlight

Summary

spotlight ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (206 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • spotlight is a type of lamp[2].
  • spotlight is a type of lighting device[3].
  • spotlight's Commons category is recorded as Spotlights (theatre lighting)[4].
  • spotlight's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/04286575-n[5].
  • spotlight's exact match is recorded as http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/104228117-n[6].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include lamp[2] and lighting device[3].

Influence

Things named for spotlight include Spotlight[7], a film[8], directed by Tom McCarthy[9] and Windows Spotlight[10], a software[11], founded in 2015[12].

Why It Matters

spotlight ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (206 views/month).[1] spotlight has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] spotlight is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Entities named for spotlight include Spotlight[7], a film[8], directed by Tom McCarthy[9] and Windows Spotlight[10], a software[11], founded in 2015[12].

Related Entities

Spotlight

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [8] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · LadyData · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → lamp, lighting device
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → —
    Imdb keyword → spotlight
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P11924]]: spotlight, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/193891837|spotlight (#193891837)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6965|Top 10,000 IMDb key"
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