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José Raoul de Capriles

American fencer (1912-1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3810600 ↗
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José Raoul de Capriles (February 13, 1912 – February 21, 1969) was an American foil and épée fencer. He competed at the 1936, 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.

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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—1912, 1969, 1936, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1912-02-13. The account is most persuasive where José, Raoul and Capriles can be independently traced.
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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3810600. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1969, 1936 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “José Raoul de Capriles” 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.