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Tião (basketball)

Brazilian basketball player (born 1925)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ3953824 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sebastião "Tião" Amorim Gimenez, also commonly known as Tião (born 31 May 1925), is a Brazilian former basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Tião (basketball)” as brazilian basketball player (born 1925). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tião, basketball and Brazilian.

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—1925, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-05-31. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tião, basketball and Brazilian providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Tião (basketball)”, the useful work is to connect “brazilian basketball player (born 1925)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3953824. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 1952.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tião (basketball)” 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.