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Alfredo Mendes

Brazilian athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ46953104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alfredo Mendes (7 November 1910 – 7 November 1995) was a Brazilian athlete. He competed in the men's high jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Alfredo Mendes” enters the record as brazilian athletics competitor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alfredo, Mendes and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1910, 1995, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-11-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alfredo, Mendes and Brazilian.
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Why this record matters

“Alfredo Mendes” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alfredo, Mendes and Brazilian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q46953104. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1995 and 1936.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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 “Alfredo Mendes” 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.