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Sleeping Beauty Rock

Rock in Lüdao, Taitung County, Taiwan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ101637065 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Sleeping Beauty Rock (Chinese: 睡美人岩; pinyin: Shuì Měirén Yán) is a rock in Green Island, Taitung County, Taiwan.

History

The rock is a residual volcanic wall. The rock was formed slowly after different parts of the crater eroded by sea and wind over time.

Name

The rock was named Sleeping Beauty Rock because the shape resembles a Sleeping Beauty.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sleeping Beauty Rock” as rock in Lüdao, Taitung County, Taiwan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sleeping, Beauty and Rock.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sleeping, Beauty and Rock providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sleeping Beauty Rock”, the useful work is to connect “rock in Lüdao, Taitung County, Taiwan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q101637065. Authority coordinates are 22.655, 121.508. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sleeping Beauty Rock”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sleeping Beauty Rock primary sources, Sleeping Beauty Rock archive and Sleeping 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 “Sleeping Beauty Rock”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sleeping Beauty Rock” 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.