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Jacinthe Laguë

Canadian actress from Quebec

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ3157092 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jacinthe Laguë is a Canadian actress from Montreal, Quebec. She is best known for her role in The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq), for which she garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 25th Genie Awards.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jacinthe Laguë” is canadian actress from Quebec. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jacinthe, Laguë and Canadian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. For this dossier, Jacinthe, Laguë and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “canadian actress from Quebec” 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 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 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3157092. VIAF identifies the subject as 120522756. The Library of Congress control number is no2010056691. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jacinthe Laguë”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jacinthe Laguë” 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.