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Beatrice Gafner

Swiss alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ443002 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beatrice Gafner (born 19 November 1964 in Beatenberg) is a Swiss former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Beatrice Gafner” enters the record as swiss alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beatrice, Gafner and Swiss 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—1964, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-11-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beatrice, Gafner and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Beatrice Gafner” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beatrice, Gafner and Swiss 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 Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q443002. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 1988.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beatrice Gafner” 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.