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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ207919
Source-derived summary

Li, li, or LI may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Landscape Institute, a British professional body for landscape architects

Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia, US, that teaches "political technology."

Li Auto (Nasdaq: LI), a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles

Liberal International, a political federation for liberal parties

Linux International, an international non-profit organization

Lyndon Institute, an independent high school in the U.S. state of Vermont

The Light Infantry, a British Army infantry regiment

Names

Li (surname), including:

List of people with surname Li

Li (surname 李), one of the most common surnames in the world

Li (surname 黎), the 84th most common surname in China

Li (surname 栗), the 249th most common surname in China

Li (surname 利), the 299th most common surname in China

Li (surname 厉), a Chinese surname

Li (surname 郦), a Chinese surname

Li Andersson (born 1987), Finnish politician

Li Kochman (born 1995), Israeli judoka

Places

Long Island, New York is the most common application for the capitalized acronym LI.

LI can also stand for one of the ISO country codes of Liechtenstein.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Li” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

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—1987, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page 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 “Li”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q207919. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1995.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Li”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Li primary sources, Li archive and Wikimedia 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 “Li”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Li” 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.