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stalking horse

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stalking horse

Summary

stalking horse is an idiom[1]. It draws 141 Wikipedia views per month (idiom category, ranking #62 of 97).[2]

Key Facts

  • stalking horse's instance of is recorded as idiom[3].
  • stalking horse's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01y487[4].

Why It Matters

stalking horse draws 141 Wikipedia views per month (idiom category, ranking #62 of 97).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). stalking horse. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/stalking-horse
MLA “stalking horse.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/stalking-horse.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_stalking-horse_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{stalking horse}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/stalking-horse}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): stalking horse — https://4ort.xyz/entity/stalking-horse (retrieved 2026-05-03)

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