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Every record on AllTimes is sourced. We tier by how close the source is to the issuer of the number — primary sources win conflicts. Right now that’s 3,360 individual citations across the references below.

official5 sources · 5 citations

Tier 1 — primary source. The number as the issuer published it.

  • Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Daily-updated net worth.

    www.bloomberg.com/billionaires
  • IMDb-owned. Industry standard for theatrical box office; treat as Tier 1 truth source.

    www.boxofficemojo.com
  • Annual World's Billionaires list. Source-of-wealth, country, net worth as of publication.

    www.forbes.com/billionaires
  • Official World Golf Ranking. Weeks at #1, ranking history, points.

    www.owgr.com
  • Tour-issued earnings, tournament fields, FedEx Cup, Player of the Year.

    www.pgatour.com
verified45 sources · 3,350 citations

Tier 2 — verified by a primary source we treat as canonical (e.g. a wire service citing the issuer).

  • Wikidata× 3,049 citations
    www.wikidata.org · 3,049 distinct pages cited
  • Forbes× 81 citations

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/mohammed-bin-issa-al-jaber/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. Forbes profile 404 (Forbes removed it), no Wayback snapshot; Wikipedia article documents his wealth-claim history (Bloomberg $7.19B as of 2018) — stored $9B @2026-05-01 NOT corroborated, founder review flagged, verified 2026-06-09

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/mike-bloomberg/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. HTTP 200 2026-06-09; profile is Michael Bloomberg (entity michael-bloomberg)

    repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2026 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. live #2026 section has real-time edits diverging from the as-published list; the 2026-03-16 Wayback snapshot's #2026 table matches all 10 stored values exactly (Musk $839B … Ortega $148B), verified 2026-06-09

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/steve-schwarzman/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. HTTP 200 2026-06-09; profile is Stephen Schwarzman (entity stephen-schwarzman)

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/gerard-wertheimer/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. Forbes profile 404, no Wayback snapshot, Bloomberg profile bot-blocked; Wikipedia article is the right person and documents US$40B (Oct 2022) — stored $42B @2026-05-01 not exactly corroborated (documented), verified 2026-06-09

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/zeng-yuqun/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. HTTP 200 2026-06-09; profile is Robin Zeng (Zeng Yuqun, CATL — entity robin-zeng)

    repoint-2026-06: was https://www.forbes.com/profile/delphine-arnault/ (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. Forbes profile 404, no Wayback snapshot; Wikipedia article is the right person (French billionaires category; no figure on page — documented), verified 2026-06-09

    cited via www.forbes.com · en.wikipedia.org · web.archive.org
  • Box Office Mojo× 52 citations
    www.boxofficemojo.com · 52 distinct pages cited
  • PGA Tour× 42 citations
    cited via www.pgatour.com · en.wikipedia.org
  • Wikipedia× 36 citations

    repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_De%C3%A1k_(footballer,_born_1922) (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. old title MISSING per MediaWiki API; live article is the same person (Hungarian striker, b. 1922). Stored career-goals 576 not stated by the live article (founder review flagged), verified 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org · 36 distinct pages cited
  • Transfermarkt× 17 citations
    www.transfermarkt.com · 17 distinct pages cited
  • FIFA× 11 citations

    repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_goals_by_Pel%C3%A9 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. live article #Career_statistics states the exact stored claim: "often reported by FIFA as being 1,281 goals in 1,363 games" (record: FIFA-sourced 1281), verified 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org · 11 distinct pages cited
  • USGA× 7 citations
    cited via www.pgatour.com · en.wikipedia.org
  • Bloomberg× 6 citations
    www.bloomberg.com · 6 distinct pages cited
  • R&A× 6 citations
    cited via en.wikipedia.org · www.pgatour.com
  • France Football× 5 citations
    en.wikipedia.org · 5 distinct pages cited
  • FBref× 3 citations
    fbref.com · 3 distinct pages cited
  • ESPN× 2 citations
    www.espn.com · 2 distinct pages cited
  • PGA of America× 2 citations
    en.wikipedia.org · 2 distinct pages cited
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seve_Ballesteros
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2000
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2001
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2002
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2003
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2004
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2005
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2006
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2007
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2008
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2009
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2010
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2011
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2012
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2013
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2014
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2015
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2016
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2017
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires_2018
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2019 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2019" MISSING; live #2019 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2020 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2020" MISSING; live #2020 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2021 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2021" MISSING; live #2021 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2022 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2022" MISSING; live #2022 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09 (known wiki-table Bezos 177-vs-171 mirror disagreement documented — U-5 rejected the wiki figure)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2023 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2023" MISSING; live #2023 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2024 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2024" MISSING; live #2024 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2025 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. MediaWiki API: title "The World's Billionaires 2025" MISSING; live #2025 section table verified against stored record values 2026-06-09

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billionaires
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires_2026 (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. live #2026 section has real-time edits diverging from the as-published list; the 2026-03-16 Wayback snapshot's #2026 table matches all 10 stored values exactly (Musk $839B … Ortega $148B), verified 2026-06-09

    web.archive.org/web/20260316063407/https://en.wikipedia.org/w…
  • repoint-2026-06: was https://www.owgr.com/about (HTTP 404); repointed to live equivalent. /about and /about-us both 404, homepage 200 (2026-06-09); bare-homepage citation per the existing Transfermarkt/PGA-Tour convention; weeks-at-#1 values verified via the Wikipedia OWGR weeks list (truth-pass Phase A)

    www.owgr.com
  • www.rsssf.org/players/prolific.html
  • www.themoviedb.org/movie/19995
aggregator4 sources · 4 citations

Tier 3 — aggregator. Reliable but downstream of the issuer; we lean on these for fields the primary doesn't carry.

  • Sports Reference's soccer arm. Per-match and per-season stats with citations.

    fbref.com
  • Cast, crew, release dates, runtime. Use for entity metadata, not box-office numbers.

    www.imdb.com
  • Strong for budgets, profit, and home-video splits Box Office Mojo doesn't track.

    www.the-numbers.com
  • Definitive crowd-sourced source for transfer fees and squad histories.

    www.transfermarkt.com
community1 source · 1 citation

Tier 4 — community-edited. Used as a backbone for slugs and IDs; numbers always validated against a higher tier.

  • Cross-cutting structured data via SPARQL. Use as a backbone for entity slugs and IDs; verify numbers against tier-1 sources before publishing.

    www.wikidata.org