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Kuan Tai

association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ871675
Source-derived summary

Kuan Tai (Chinese: 關帝文化; Portuguese: Associação Desportiva Cultural Kuan Tai) is a Macau football club, which plays in Macao. The team have been withdrawn from the Macau's first division, the Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol in 2014, due to financial reasons.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kuan Tai” as association football club. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kuan, association and football.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kuan, association and football 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 “Kuan Tai”, the useful work is to connect “association football club” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q871675. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. 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

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kuan Tai”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kuan Tai primary sources, Kuan Tai archive and Kuan 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 “Kuan Tai”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Kuan Tai” 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.