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Americano

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ413346 ↗
Source-derived summary

Americano may refer to:

Drinks

Caffè americano, a style of coffee prepared by adding hot water to espresso

Americano (apéritif), a variety of apéritif

Americano (cocktail), a cocktail composed of Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda

Arts and entertainment

Films

The Americano (1916 film), directed byJohn Emerson

The Americano (1955 film), directed by William Castle

Americano (2005 film)

Americano (2011 film)

El Americano: The Movie, a 2016 film

Music

"Americano" (song), a 2011 song by Lady Gaga

"The Americano", instrumental single by Xavier Cugat, 1954

"Americano", a cover of the Renato Carosone song "Tu vuò fà l'americano" by The Brian Setzer Orchestra from the album Vavoom!

¡Americano!, a 2004 album by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers

"Americanos" (song), a 1989 song by Holly Johnson

Theatre

¡Americano! (musical), a 2020 musical

Places

Americano Creek, a river in Sonoma County, California, US

Rancho Estero Americano, a Mexican land grant in Sonoma County, California, US

Sports

Americano Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club from Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro

Americano Futebol Clube (MA), a Brazilian football club in Bacabal, Maranhão.

Editorial summary

“Americano” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Americano, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1916, 1955, 2005, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Americano, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Americano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Americano, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q413346. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1955, 2005 and 2011.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Americano”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Americano primary sources, Americano archive and Americano 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Americano” 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.