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Václav Kacl

Czech diver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2023
Entity authorityQ16079012 ↗
Source-derived summary

Václav Kacl (born 29 July 1910; date of death unknown) was a diver who competed for Czechoslovakia. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he placed 19th in 10 metre platform.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Václav Kacl” is czech diver. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Václav, Kacl and Czech, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-07-29. For this dossier, Václav, Kacl and Czech is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “czech diver” 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 May 23, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q16079012. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Václav Kacl” 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.