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Kim Taek-yeon

South Korean baseball player (born 2005)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ126683885 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kim Taek-yeon (Korean: 김택연; born June 3, 2005) is a South Korean professional baseball player for the Doosan Bears of the KBO League. He won the KBO League Rookie of the Year Award in 2024.

Career

He represented the South Korea national baseball team at the 2026 World Baseball Classic.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kim Taek-yeon” as south Korean baseball player (born 2005). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2005, 2024, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005-06-03. The account is most persuasive where Taek-yeon, South and Korean can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as south Korean baseball player (born 2005). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126683885. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005, 2024 and 2026.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Kim Taek-yeon” 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.