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Mário de Noronha

fencer (1885–1973)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ113929 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mário de Noronha (15 January 1885 – 9 July 1973) was a Portuguese fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team épée competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mário de Noronha” is fencer (1885–1973). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mário, Noronha and fencer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1885, 1973, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-01-15. For this dossier, Mário, Noronha and fencer is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “fencer (1885–1973)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113929. VIAF identifies the subject as 99938238. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1973 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mário de Noronha” 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.