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Paul Chohan

Canadian field hockey player-coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ7149828 ↗
Source-derived summary

Paul Satinder "Bubli" Chohan (born 2 July 1957 in Ludhiana, Punjab, India) is an Indian-born Canadian former field hockey player who represented Canada 317 times in international competition. This includes 3 World Cups and 3 Olympic Games (Montreal 1975, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988) on top of the 6 PanAm games.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Paul Chohan” is canadian field hockey player-coach. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Paul, Chohan and Canadian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1957, 1975, 1984, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-07-02. For this dossier, Paul, Chohan and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “canadian field hockey player-coach” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7149828. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1975, 1984 and 1988.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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 “Paul Chohan” 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.