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Ivan Yeo

Malaysian basketball player (born 1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ21623365
Source-derived summary

Ivan Yeo (born March 2, 1993, in Kelantan, Malaysia) is a Malaysian professional basketball player. Yeo is one of Malaysia's most prominent basketball figures.

He averaged most minutes, points and rebounds for the Malaysia national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship in Changsha, China.

Editorial summary

“Ivan Yeo” enters the record as malaysian basketball player (born 1993). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ivan, Malaysian and basketball 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—1993, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-03-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ivan, Malaysian and basketball.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ivan Yeo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ivan, Malaysian and basketball 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 May 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21623365. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2015.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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

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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 “Ivan Yeo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ivan Yeo primary sources, Ivan Yeo archive and Ivan 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 “Ivan Yeo”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Ivan Yeo” 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.