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Dengshikou station

Beijing Subway station in Dongcheng, Beijing

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5256961 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dengshi Kou station (Chinese: 灯市口站; pinyin: Dēngshì Kǒu Zhàn) is a station on Line 5 of the Beijing Subway.

Station layout

The station has an underground island platform.

Exits

There are two exits, lettered A and C. Exit C is accessible.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dengshikou station” as beijing Subway station in Dongcheng, Beijing. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dengshikou, station and Beijing.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 41-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-10-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dengshikou, station and Beijing providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dengshikou station”, the useful work is to connect “beijing Subway station in Dongcheng, Beijing” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5256961. Authority coordinates are 39.915, 116.412. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dengshikou station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dengshikou station primary sources, Dengshikou station archive and Dengshikou research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dengshikou station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dengshikou station” 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.