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Plaid

British electronic music duo
Organization musical_group Q1072372
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Summary

Plaid is a musical group[1]. Plaid ranks in the top 6% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (654 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Genre: intelligent dance music[3]
  • Record label: Warp[4]
  • Commons category: Plaid[5]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[6]
  • Inception: 1991[7]
  • Location of formation: England[8]
  • Official website: http://www.plaidmusic.co.uk/[9]
  • Has characteristic: musical duo[10]
  • Start of work period: 1991[11]
  • Name: Plaid[12]
  • Social media followers: 9826[13], 9433[14], 10,200[15], 10,438[16], 11,279[17], 12,400[18], 13,500[19], 14,100[20]

Why It Matters

Plaid has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Plaid is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

England United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . popmatters.com. popmatters.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'nl', 'pl', 'ru', 't
    Gnd id → 10302916-3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 15w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-06-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nme artist id → plaid
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Nme artist id: plaid, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/214798628|plaid (#214798628)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7190|NME artist]] #mix'n'match"
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