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Bernard Whyte

Ghanaian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ106730246 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bernard Whyte (born 22 October 1968) is a Ghanaian former football defender. He played in six matches for the Ghana national football team in 1994. He was also named in Ghana's squad for the 1994 African Cup of Nations tournament.

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The public source identifies “Bernard Whyte” as ghanaian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bernard, Whyte and Ghanaian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-10-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bernard, Whyte and Ghanaian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bernard Whyte”, the useful work is to connect “ghanaian footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106730246. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1968 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bernard Whyte” 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.