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Rina Chibany

Beauty pageant winner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2912716
Source-derived summary

Rina Chibany (Arabic: رينا شيباني) (born 7 February 1991) is a Lebanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Lebanon 2012. She represented her country in the 2012 Miss Universe competition.

Early life

Rina stands 178 cm tall and weighs 54 kg. Her vital statistics in inches are: 34-25-37.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rina Chibany” is beauty pageant winner. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rina, Chibany and Beauty, 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—1991, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991-02-07. For this dossier, Rina, Chibany and Beauty is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “beauty pageant winner” 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

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 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2912716. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from Rina Chibany” 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.