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Ermanno Vallazza

Italian bicycle racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ3056716 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ermanno Vallazza (6 May 1899, in Boca – 30 January 1978, in Boca) was an Italian cyclist.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ermanno Vallazza” is italian bicycle racer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ermanno, Vallazza and Italian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899-05-06. For this dossier, Ermanno, Vallazza and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “italian bicycle racer” 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 citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3056716. VIAF identifies the subject as 125160483868204992589. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ermanno Vallazza” 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.