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ghostwriter

person hired to write speeches or texts putatively credited to another
Occupation occupation Q623386
ghostwriter
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Summary

ghostwriter is an occupation[1]. ghostwriter ranks in the top 7% of occupation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,324 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: writer[3]
  • Opposite of: ghostwritten academic[4]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ghostwriters[5]
  • Female form of label: סופרת צללים[6], Ghostwriterin[7], escritora pantasma[8], negra[9]
  • Male form of label: Ghostwriter[10]

Why It Matters

ghostwriter has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] ghostwriter is known by 114 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Works attributed to ghostwriter include If I Did It[13], a literary work[14], written by O. J. Simpson[15].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Bolivia Route 28
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