Kylian Mbappé
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Combined Graph record U-07095 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5839.
Kylian Mbappé, born Kylian Mbappé Lottin on 20 December 1998 in Paris, France, and raised in Bondy, is a French footballer who plays as a forward for Real Madrid and captains the France national team. He began his senior career with Monaco, winning Ligue 1 in 2016–17, then signed for Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, where he won six Ligue 1 titles and became the club's all-time top scorer with 256 goals before joining Real Madrid on a free transfer in 2024. Internationally he won the 2018 FIFA World Cup as a teenager, scoring in the final, and at the 2022 World Cup he scored a hat-trick in the final against Argentina and won the Golden Boot with eight goals, though France lost the final on penalties.
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Kylian Mbappé, born Kylian Mbappé Lottin on 20 December 1998 in Paris, France, and raised in Bondy, is a French footballer who plays as a forward for Real Madrid and captains the France national team. He began his senior career with Monaco, winning Ligue 1 in 2016–17, then signed for Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, where he won six Ligue 1 titles and became the club's all-time top scorer with 256 goals before joining Real Madrid on a free transfer in
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- Also known as: Kylian Mbappé Lottin
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Kylian Mbappé entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5839 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 969 (Soccer Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — French football figure of Cameroonian and Algerian parentage, per sourced biography, supplied on the Soccer Players census list under the program's diaspora/global scope. Vital status: LIVING — playing for Real Madrid and captaining France in October 2026 fixtures (Wikipedia/Sports Illustrated profile, accessed 2026-10-16). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Paris Saint-Germain's all-time top scorer with 256 goals (AFP, June 2024); 2018 World Cup winner, scoring in the final; 2022 World Cup Golden Boot with eight goals including a hat-trick in the final (Reuters) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons match photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5839-kylian-mbappe.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/performances are)
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Sources
- Reuters, "World Cup 2022 top goal scorer: who won the Golden Boot?" (December 2022) — Mbappé topped the 2022 count with eight goals after a hat-trick in the final, which France lost to Argentina on penalties — https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/world-cup-2022-top-goal-scorer-who-could-win-golden-boot-2022-12-01/ (primary source · build store)
- Agence France-Presse, via The Business Standard, "Kylian Mbappe officially signs for Real Madrid for next five seasons" (3 June 2024) — five-year Real Madrid deal announced by the club; World Cup winner in 2018; club-record 256 goals for Paris Saint-Germain; hat-trick in the 2022 World Cup final — https://www.tbsnews.net/sports/kylian-mbappe-officially-signs-real-madrid-next-five-seasons-867891 (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Kylian Mbappé" — born Kylian Mbappé Lottin, 20 December 1998, Paris, raised in Bondy; Monaco Ligue 1 title 2016–17; six Ligue 1 titles with Paris Saint-Germain; France captain; Real Madrid from 2024 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylian_Mbappé (build store)
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