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Horacio San Martín

Argentine rugby union footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5902440 ↗
Source-derived summary

Horacio San Martín (born February 15, 1982, in Formosa) is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He plays in the centre position. His test debut was against Wales at the Millennium Stadium in November 2009. In May 2010 San Martín was selected in a squad of over 40 players to represent Argentina in the two test Summer tour of Argentina.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Horacio San Martín” is argentine rugby union footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Horacio, Martín and Argentine, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1982, 2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-02-15. For this dossier, Horacio, Martín and Argentine is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “argentine rugby union footballer” 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

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 Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5902440. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2009 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Horacio San Martín” 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.