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Kwok Kam-hung

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ19854586 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kwok Kam-hung (13 May 1934 - 21 November 2011) was a former international footballer who played for the Republic of China. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kwok Kam-hung” as footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kwok, Kam-hung and footballer.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 2011, 1960—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1937, 1934-05-13—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kwok, Kam-hung and footballer providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Kwok Kam-hung”, the useful work is to connect “footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19854586. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934, 2011 and 1960.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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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 “Kwok Kam-hung”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kwok Kam-hung primary sources, Kwok Kam-hung archive and Kwok 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 “Kwok Kam-hung”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kwok Kam-hung” 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.