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1985 Hong Kong Masters

Snooker tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ55601227 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1985 Camus Hong Kong Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in Hong Kong in September 1985.

Terry Griffiths won the tournament, defeating Steve Davis 4–2 in the final.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1985 Hong Kong Masters” is snooker tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hong, Kong and Masters, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hong, Kong and Masters is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55601227. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “1985 Hong Kong Masters” 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.