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Kylian Mbappé

CTL-E-5839 · Person · other · 1998–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

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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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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