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Andreas Loth

ice hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2024
Entity authorityQ499323 ↗
Source-derived summary

Andreas Loth (born 26 February 1972) is a German ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Andreas Loth” as ice hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Andreas, Loth and hockey.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-02-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andreas, Loth and hockey providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Andreas Loth”, the useful work is to connect “ice hockey player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q499323. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 2002.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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 “Andreas Loth” 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.