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Eloísa Mafalda

Brazilian actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ10272056 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mafalda Theotto (September 18, 1924 – May 16, 2018), known professionally as Eloísa Mafalda, was a Brazilian actress.

Editorial summary

“Eloísa Mafalda” enters the record as brazilian actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eloísa, Mafalda and Brazilian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1924, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-09-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eloísa, Mafalda and Brazilian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Dec 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10272056. VIAF identifies the subject as 8428153289921332770000. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Eloísa Mafalda”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Eloísa Mafalda primary sources, Eloísa Mafalda archive and Eloísa 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 “Eloísa Mafalda”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Eloísa Mafalda” 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.