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Teem Plaza

Business complex located in Guangzhou, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7694232 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Teem Plaza (Chinese: 天河城广场) is a twin tower complex in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China that consists of 45-storey, 195 m (640 ft) Teem Tower, a 38-storey Sheraton Hotels and Resorts-branded hotels, and a shopping mall. Construction of Teem Plaza was completed in 2008.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Teem Plaza” is business complex located in Guangzhou, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Teem, Plaza and Business, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006. For this dossier, Teem, Plaza and Business is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “business complex located in Guangzhou, China” 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 Mar 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7694232. Authority coordinates are 23.135, 113.317. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Teem Plaza”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Teem Plaza primary sources, Teem Plaza archive and Teem 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 “Teem Plaza”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Teem Plaza” 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.