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Tohi Te Ururangi

Ngati Whakaue leader, assessor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 11, 2022
Entity authorityQ7813268 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tohi Te Ururangi (died 28 April 1864) was a notable New Zealand tribal leader and assessor. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Whakaue iwi.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tohi Te Ururangi” is ngati Whakaue leader, assessor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tohi, Ururangi and Ngati, 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—1864—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tohi, Ururangi and Ngati is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “ngati Whakaue leader, assessor” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 11, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q7813268. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1864.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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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  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 “Tohi Te Ururangi” 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.