Wikipedia's article on the An Lushan rebellion, covering the war's course, the disputed census-based death toll long attached to it, and mainstream historiography's political rather than religious characterization of the revolt.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A general reference encyclopedia, tier 3, used as the atlas's sole citation for this newly added entity: it synthesizes the census based death toll dispute (the 36 million figure, Matthew White's own revision, Charles Patrick Fitzgerald's critique) and the mainstream political rather than religious characterization of the rebellion, pending a dedicated academic source. NotesUsed to source the An Lushan Rebellion entity in full: dates, outcome, principal parties, the disputed death toll, and the contested religious classification.
Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_rebellion
Source Typereference
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Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Wars & Conflicts, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 open question, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Open Questions, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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