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CMA CGM Magellan

container ship built in 2010

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ5012849 ↗
Source-derived summary

CMA CGM Magellan is an Explorer-class container ship built for CMA CGM. The ship is named after Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “CMA CGM Magellan” as container ship built in 2010. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Magellan, container and ship.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Magellan, container and ship 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 “CMA CGM Magellan”, the useful work is to connect “container ship built in 2010” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Dec 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5012849. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “CMA CGM Magellan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow CMA CGM Magellan primary sources, CMA CGM Magellan archive and Magellan 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

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  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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This entry incorporates text from “CMA CGM Magellan” 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.