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Caterina Balivo

Italian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ3663488 ↗
Source-derived summary

Caterina Balivo (born 21 February 1980) is an Italian television presenter and model.

Life and career

Born in Naples, Balivo grew up in Aversa, Province of Caserta. In 1999 she entered the main competition at Miss Italia and she eventually ranked third. Since 2000 she works with RAI as a television presenter. In 2003 she debuted as an actress, and she also appeared in fotoromanzi. Since 2012 Balivo is a freelance journalist.

Personal life

In 2012 Balivo gave birth to her first child, a son, she had from the financial manager Guido Maria Brera. The couple were married on August 30, 2014, in a civil ceremony in Capri.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Caterina Balivo” as italian actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1980, 1999, 2000, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-02-21. The account is most persuasive where Caterina, Balivo and Italian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 May 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3663488. VIAF identifies the subject as 305356178. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1999, 2000 and 2003.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Caterina Balivo” 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.