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Adolf Konto

Finnish sailor (1911–1965)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4684123 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jonas Leo Adolf Konto (30 March 1911 – 20 November 1965) was a Finnish sailor who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Adolf Konto” is finnish sailor (1911–1965). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Adolf, Konto and Finnish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1965, 1948, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-03-30. For this dossier, Adolf, Konto and Finnish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “finnish sailor (1911–1965)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4684123. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1911, 1965, 1948 and 1952.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Adolf Konto” 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.