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Louis Philipps

French athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ41795475 ↗
Source-derived summary

Louis Philipps (8 January 1904 – 3 October 1965) was a French middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Louis Philipps” as french athletics competitor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Louis, Philipps and French.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1965, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-04-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Louis, Philipps and French providing the first useful test.
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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 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q41795475. VIAF identifies the subject as 316452742. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1904, 1965 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Louis Philipps” 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.