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Brajinder Singh Daved

Kenyan field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ70110435 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brajinder Singh Daved (born 25 January 1953) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Brajinder Singh Daved” as kenyan field hockey player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brajinder, Singh and Daved.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1972, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brajinder, Singh and Daved 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 “Brajinder Singh Daved”, the useful work is to connect “kenyan field hockey player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q70110435. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1972 and 1984.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Brajinder Singh Daved” 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.