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High Hopes

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ928632
Source-derived summary

High Hopes may refer to:

Film and television

High Hopes (1988 film), a 1988 British film

High Hopes (2006 film), a 2005 U.S. film

High Hopes (American TV series)

High Hopes (British TV series), a British situation comedy

High Hopes (Canadian TV series), a Canadian soap opera

Music

Albums and EPs

High Hopes (album), a 2014 album by Bruce Springsteen, or its title song (see below)

High Hopes (EP), a 2007 EP by The Amity Affliction

Songs

"High Hopes" (Frank Sinatra song), 1959

"High Hopes" (The S.O.S. Band song), 1982

"High Hopes" (Tim Scott McConnell song), 1987

"High Hopes" (Pink Floyd song), 1994

"High Hopes" (Kodaline song), 2013

"High Hopes" (Panic!

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “High Hopes” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around High, Hopes and Wikimedia.

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—1988, 2006, 2005, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with High, Hopes and Wikimedia 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 “High Hopes”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q928632. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2006, 2005 and 2014.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from High Hopes” 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.