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Abdullah Ali (rower)

Egyptian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ56251823 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abdullah Ali (born 3 May 1936) is an Egyptian rower. He competed in two events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Abdullah Ali (rower)” as egyptian rower. 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—1936, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-05-03. The account is most persuasive where Abdullah, rower and Egyptian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as egyptian rower. 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 Jan 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56251823. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Abdullah Ali (rower)” 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.