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New Haven Polo Club

polo club in New Haven, Connecticut

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ7008546 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Haven Polo Club was in New Haven, Connecticut. The club won the Junior Polo Championship at Van Cortlandt Park on September 5, 1908.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “New Haven Polo Club” as polo club in New Haven, Connecticut. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Haven, Polo and Club.

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—1908—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Haven, Polo and Club providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “New Haven Polo Club”, the useful work is to connect “polo club in New Haven, Connecticut” 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 Aug 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7008546. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1908.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Haven Polo Club” 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.