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puppetry

form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets
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Summary

puppetry is a theatrical genre[1]. puppetry draws 2,436 Wikipedia views per month (theatrical genre category, ranking #27 of 153).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: animation technique[3], type of theatrical work[4]
  • Subclass of: Q110889064[5], popular theatre[6], traditional theatre[7], kleinkunst[8], play[9]
  • Commons category: Puppetry[10]
  • Said to be the same as: Q110889064[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Puppetry[12]
  • Described by source: Gujin Tushu Jicheng[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[15], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16]
  • Uses: puppet[17]
  • Practiced by: puppeteer[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Craft[19], WikiProject Opera dei pupi[20], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • Model item: puppetry museum[22], puppetry company[23], puppetry building[24]

Why It Matters

puppetry has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] puppetry is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Related Entities

Indonesian Institute of the Arts Jiří Trnka Jovan Jovanović Zmaj The Muppet Show

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . UNESCO Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . UNESCO Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX533078
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cdo', 'ceb', 'cs', 'cv', 'da
    Svkkl authority id → 0222053-loutkoherectvi, h0002272-loutkarstvi, h0001930-loutkove-hry
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0222053-loutkoherectvi, h0002272-loutkarstvi, h0001930-loutkove-hry
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0222053-loutkoherectvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → Q110889064
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Craft, WikiProject Opera dei pupi, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → Q110889064, popular theatre, traditional theatre +2
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 27767, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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