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lamp

part of a light fixture that produces the light
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lamp

Summary

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

Key Facts

  • lamp is a type of light source[2].
  • lamp is a type of lighting device[3].
  • lamp is part of light fixture[4].
  • lamp's Commons category is recorded as Lamps[5].
  • lamp's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Types of lamp[6].
  • lamp's Commons gallery is recorded as Lamp[7].
  • lamp's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[8].
  • lamp's different from is recorded as Lampe[9].
  • lamp's different from is recorded as candle[10].
  • lamp's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000566[11].

Body

Definition and Type

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

Use and Application

lamp is part of light fixture[4].

Influence

Things named for lamp include Lamp-flora[12].

Why It Matters

lamp ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).[1] lamp has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] lamp is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Entities named for lamp include Lamp-flora[12].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [12] ↑ . 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. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Types of lamp
    Subclass of → —
    Part of → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13009, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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