Source
Satyajit Ray
Citation
Satyajit Ray. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-10 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used here strictly to corroborate Ray’s birth and death tokens (2 May 1921 / 23 April 1992) — which the Tier-3 Britannica article also records — and the Bengali / Calcutta-Kolkata framing.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from the article infobox (fetched 2026-05-10):
- Page title: “Satyajit Ray”
- Article infobox
bday(verbatim):1921-05-02 - Article infobox death-date row (verbatim): “23 April 1992”
- Active period (verbatim): “1950–1992”
- Article categories include: “1921 births”, “1992 deaths”, “Bengali film directors”, “Bengali writers”, “Indian children’s book illustrators”, “Indian children’s writers”, “20th-century Indian songwriters”, “Indian male screenwriters”, “Indian film score composers”, “Indian illustrators”, “Culture of Kolkata”, “Recipients of the Legion of Honour”, “People associated with Santiniketan”, “Film directors from Kolkata”, “Presidency University, Kolkata alumni”, “Recipients of the Bharat Ratna”, “Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts”, “Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in arts”, “University of Calcutta alumni”, “Visva-Bharati University alumni”, “20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights”, “Filmfare Awards winners”, “Indian science fiction writers”.
- Lake-Avenue residence note (verbatim from body): “Despite Ray’s success, it had little influence on his personal life in the years to come. He continued to live with his wife and children in a rented house on Lake Avenue in South Calcutta…”
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is treated as a pointer source. The 2 May 1921 / 23 April 1992 day-month tokens are corroborated by the structured-data record at Wikidata Q8873 (+1921-05-02/+1992-04-23, fetched 2026-05-10 to.scratch/wikidata-ray.json); same Wikipedia community pool, not strictly independent. - The 1921 / 1992 year-only resolution is independently anchored at Tier 3 by the Britannica article (
src-britannica-satyajit-ray), which records the same dates verbatim in both the lead paragraph and the structured birth/death sidebar. Two-source agreement promotes the year-tokens above pointer status; day-month tokens remain pointer-only at Tier 3. - The Wikipedia article emphasizes Ray’s filmmaking, writing, illustration, and music; photography is not a major topic of the body text in this fetch (string-search 2026-05-10 returns no significant block on Ray’s still-photography practice). The MoMA Master Checklist (
src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist) credits Ray’s single FoM plate (photo-0081, Section 10 Family Activities, “Satyajit Ray, Indian, 16 x 21 1/4 cm”) under his own name — the connection to FoM is anchored at the plate level only, not at the biographical-narrative level in any fetched-this-round source. - The article opens with the standard Wikipedia infobox; the body text does not name The Family of Man (verified 2026-05-10 by string-search; “family of man” / “Steichen” return 0 occurrences in the fetched HTML).
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-10 via
curl -fsSL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray(HTTP 200, 923,361 bytes). Saved at.scratch/wikipedia-satyajit-ray.html. Wikidata structured-data backup saved at.scratch/wikidata-ray.json.