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  "ar": "أنس كانتر",
  "en": "Enes Kanter Freedom",
  "ur": "اینیس کانٹر فریڈم"
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  "ar": "لاعب كرة سلة تركي أمريكي ⁦(وُلد سنة 1992)⁩ وُلد في زيورخ باسم أنس كانتر ونشأ في تركيا، لعب أحد عشر موسماً في NBA، وأصبح مواطناً أمريكياً في 29 نوفمبر 2021 وغيّر اسمه قانونياً إلى أنس كانتر فريدوم؛ مسلم ممارس وناشط حقوقي.",
  "en": "Turkish-American basketball player and activist (born 1992) born in Zurich as Enes Kanter and raised in Turkey, who played eleven NBA seasons and, on becoming an American citizen on 29 November 2021, legally changed his name to Enes Kanter Freedom; a practising Muslim.",
  "ur": "ترک نژاد امریکی باسکٹ بال کھلاڑی اور کارکن ⁦(پیدائش 1992)⁩ جو زیورخ میں اینیس کانٹر کے نام سے پیدا ہوئے اور ترکی میں پلے بڑھے؛ NBA کے گیارہ سیزن کھیلے اور 29 نومبر 2021ء کو امریکی شہری بننے پر قانونی طور پر نام اینیس کانٹر فریڈم رکھ لیا۔"
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  "earliest": 1992.382389782131,
  "latest": 1992.3851276891064
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   "note": "Born on 20 May 1992 at Zurich, Switzerland, as Enes Kanter: the English, Arabic and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree on the day. Zurich has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1412 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "Enes Kanter Freedom",
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    "value": "Enes Kanter",
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    "value": "أنس كانتر",
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   "note": "Born on 20 May 1992 at Zurich, Switzerland, as Enes Kanter: the English, Arabic and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree on the day. Zurich has no place entity, so the fact is carried here and no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1412 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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  "roles": [
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   "activist"
  ],
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Freedom's Islam is documented practice: the English biography calls him a practising Muslim and records his 2019 Washington Post essay on observing Ramadan during the NBA playoffs; Religion Unplugged's profile of 7 February 2022 likewise describes him as a practising Muslim and Muslim American. That profile also reports his upbringing in the Gülen (Hizmet) movement and his schooling in its schools in Turkey — movement affiliation and schooling, which under the lane's rule never count as a school attestation, and no source read names a school of law or theology for him. The settlement therefore stays unknown, unflagged, with the documented practice and the expressly non-counted affiliation both stated here.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "The English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia biographies of Enes Kanter Freedom, the Wikidata item Q715618 and Religion Unplugged's profile of 7 February 2022, all read in full; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session, asserted, and the Wikidata revision re-asserted against a second live query; the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Zurich-born, Turkey-raised centre drafted third overall in 2011, born Enes Kanter; existence was checked by QID and by name fragments (Kanter, Enes) against every person record on origin/main and no prior record or Arabic-label collision exists, so no homonyms entry is required. The queue's year (1992, living) is confirmed to the day. Relations written: none — Zurich has no place entity. Living-person care: only well-sourced public facts are recorded; the faith entry rests on documented practice and his own published writing, and his Gülen-movement upbringing is recorded as affiliation expressly not counted toward any school.",
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