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Rolf van Rijn

Dutch basketball player (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2024
Entity authorityQ6111283 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rolf van Rijn (born 23 October 1972) is a Dutch retired basketball player. Van Rijn, 2.17 m (7 ft 1 in) tall, played as center for several teams over his career. In 1998, he was a member of Real Madrid. He also played for the Netherlands national basketball team.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rolf van Rijn” as dutch basketball player (born 1972). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rolf, Rijn and Dutch.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-10-23. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rolf, Rijn and Dutch providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Rolf van Rijn”, the useful work is to connect “dutch basketball player (born 1972)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6111283. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1998.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rolf van Rijn” 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.