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Robert Dossou

Beninese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ3434985 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Dossou (born 13 May 1939) is a Beninese politician. He was the foreign minister of Benin from 1993 to 1995.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Robert Dossou” as beninese politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Robert, Dossou and Beninese.

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—1939, 1993, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-05-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Robert, Dossou and Beninese providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Robert Dossou”, the useful work is to connect “beninese politician” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3434985. VIAF identifies the subject as 4148162669454755500002. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1993 and 1995.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Dossou” 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.