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Jean Castel

French sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ16562498 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean Castel (4 June 1916 – 23 September 1999) was a French sailor. He competed in the 6 Metre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Jean Castel” enters the record as french sailor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean, Castel and French 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—1916, 1999, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-06-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jean, Castel and French.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16562498. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1999 and 1948.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean Castel” 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.