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Peter Kalafut

Olympic handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ3616577 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Kalafut (born 19 October 1960 in Kežmarok) is a Slovak former handball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Peter Kalafut” enters the record as olympic handball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Peter, Kalafut and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-10-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Peter, Kalafut and Olympic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Peter Kalafut” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Peter, Kalafut and Olympic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3616577. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1992.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Peter Kalafut”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Peter Kalafut primary sources, Peter Kalafut archive and Peter 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 “Peter Kalafut”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Kalafut” 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.