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Delilah (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ442126
Source-derived summary

Delilah is a female Biblical figure.

Delilah, or Delila, also may refer to:

Places

Delila, Virginia, United States

People

Delilah (given name)

Delila Hatuel (born 1980), Israeli fencer

Delila Richards Abbott (1908–1998), American politician and businesswoman

Maya Delilah (born 2000), English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Sophie Delila (born 1983), French songwriter, musician and producer

Paloma Ayana Stoecker (born 1991), known mononymously as Delilah, English singer-songwriter

Arts and entertainment

Music

Delilah (Tom Jones album), 1968

Delilah (Anderson East album), 2015

"Delilah" (Florence and the Machine song), 2015

"Delilah" (Queen song), 1991

"Delilah" (Tom Jones song), 1968

"Delilah", a song by The Cranberries from Bury the Hatchet

"Delilah", a song by The Dresden Dolls from the 2006 album Yes, Virginia...

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Delilah (disambiguation)” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1908, 1998, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Delilah, disambiguation and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q442126. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1908, 1998 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from Delilah (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.