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Věra Kubánková

Czech actress (1924–2016)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ12001909 ↗
Source-derived summary

Věra Kubánková (22 July 1924 – 13 April 2016) was a Czech actress. At the 2006 Thalia Awards she was honoured in the lifetime achievement in theatre category. She worked at the Divadlo za branou during the 1960s and 1970s. Kubánková also took to the stage in the Czech cities of Jihlava and Zlín, but most of her performances came in Prague.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Věra Kubánková” is czech actress (1924–2016). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Věra, Kubánková and Czech, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 2016, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924-07-22. For this dossier, Věra, Kubánková and Czech is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “czech actress (1924–2016)” 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

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 Oct 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q12001909. VIAF identifies the subject as 84041173. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924, 2016 and 2006.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Věra Kubánková”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Věra Kubánková primary sources, Věra Kubánková archive and Věra 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

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This entry incorporates text from “Věra Kubánková” 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.