photograph

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photograph
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photograph

Summary

photograph ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,009 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • photograph is a type of two-dimensional visual artwork[2].
  • photograph is a type of record[3].
  • photograph is a type of image[4].
  • photograph is a type of visual work[5].
  • photograph is a type of document[6].
  • photograph's Commons category is recorded as Photographs[7].
  • photograph's has cause is recorded as photographing[8].
  • photograph's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Photographs[9].
  • photograph's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox photography[10].
  • photograph's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Photograph[11].
  • photograph's equivalent class is recorded as http://id.cabi.org/cabt/89399[12].
  • photograph's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C86035[13].
  • photograph's name in kana is recorded as フォト[14].
  • photograph's different from is recorded as Photograph[15].
  • photograph's different from is recorded as photography[16].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P170[17].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P571[18].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P17[19].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P180[20].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P136[21].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P462[22].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P2048[23].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P2049[24].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P18[25].
  • photograph's properties for this type is recorded as P276[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include two-dimensional visual artwork[2], record[3], image[4], visual work[5], and document[6].

Influence

Things named for photograph include photomontage[27], a two-dimensional visual artwork genre[28].

Why It Matters

photograph ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,009 views/month).[1] photograph has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] photograph is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for photograph include photomontage[27], a two-dimensional visual artwork genre[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Global Agricultural Concept Space. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_photograph_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{photograph}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/photograph}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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  1. 18d ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  2. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic has template Template:Infobox photography
    Wellcome collection concept id sugnguxv
    Topic's main category Category:Photographs
    Fabrication method photography
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007543509705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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