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Otto Weekhout

Dutch rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ2498739
Source-derived summary

Otto Weekhout (born 24 November 1941) is a Dutch rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Otto Weekhout” is dutch rower. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Otto, Weekhout and Dutch, 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—1941, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-11-24. For this dossier, Otto, Weekhout and Dutch is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “dutch rower” 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.

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 Mar 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2498739. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941 and 1968.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Otto Weekhout” 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.