@prefix ns1: <https://martial.is/entity/> .
@prefix ns2: <https://w3id.org/martialis/ontology#> .
@prefix ns3: <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/teacher-role/> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix ns4: <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/source-ref-type/> .
@prefix ns5: <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/evidence-weight/> .
@prefix ns6: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ns7: <https://martial.is/agent/> .
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix ns8: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .
@prefix ns9: <http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/> .

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    schema:alternateName "Le muscle de Bruxelles"@fr, "Jean-Claude Van Varenberg"@en, "The Muscles from Brussels"@en, "JCVD"@en ;
    schema:description "Belgian martial artist and actor best known as an action film star. He took up karate in Brussels at age 11 under Claude Goetz at the school that became the Centre National de Karate, earned his Shotokan black belt from Goetz in 1978, and briefly trained in full-contact kickboxing with Dominique Valera. He then built a competitive record in semi-contact karate (44 wins, 4 losses, 1976-1980) and kickboxing (18 wins, 1 loss, 1977-1982) before moving to the United States to pursue acting."@en ;
    schema:image _:b3875 ;
    schema:keywords "karate", "kickboxing", "actor", "belgium", "shotokan" ;
    schema:name "Jean-Claude Van Damme"@en, "Jean-Claude Van Damme"@fr ;
    schema:nationality _:b3877 ;
    schema:sameAs <https://viaf.org/viaf/84033028>, <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308840>, <https://isni.org/isni/0000000109201149> ;
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    ns2:researchNote "Competitive record: 44 wins, 4 losses in semi-contact karate (1976-1980) and 18 wins (18 by knockout), 1 loss in kickboxing (1977-1982), per the Star System record and the English Wikipedia. Championship title claims are contested and modelled in the honors section." ;
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    ns2:quotation "Fighter: \"Didn't you also train with France's Dominique Valera, Europe's counterpart to America's Joe Lewis?\" Van Damme: \"Yes, I trained with him for a few weeks.\"" ;
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    ns2:quotation "At the age of 12, Van Damme joined the Centre National de Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Claude Goetz in Belgium. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot on the Belgian Karate Team; he later trained in full-contact karate and kickboxing with Dominique Valera." ;
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    ns2:confidenceRationale "Van Damme confirms training with Valera in the 1988 Fighter interview, and later sources corroborate brief full-contact work with Valera in the late 1970s" .
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    ns2:role ns3:student ;
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    ns2:quotation "He was like my second father. His name was Claude Goetz. He's a Belgian fellow and a wonderful man." ;
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    ns2:supports true .
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    ns2:quotation "He received his black belt in Shotokan karate from Claude Goetz in 1978 and briefly studied kickboxing in Paris with French karate king Dominique Valera." ;
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    ns2:quotation "I enrolled in Claude Goetz's Shotokan karate school in my hometown in Belgium. I was just eleven years old at the time." ;
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    ns2:quotation "I started training in Brussels [Belgium] when I was 11, in 1971. [...] My original instructor, Claude Goetz, taught three styles. He adapted karate to your anatomy." ;
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    ns2:supports true .
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    ns2:quotation "He eventually earned his black belt in karate at 18, and earned the rank of 2nd-dan." ;
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    ns2:quotation "He received his black belt in Shotokan karate from Claude Goetz in 1978." ;
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    ns2:confidenceRationale "Black belt received from Goetz in 1978 is well attested; the 2nd dan grade is reported by the English Wikipedia but its date and granting authority are not documented" .
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    schema:datePublished "1979" ;
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    ns2:honorType <https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/honor-type/title> ;
    ns2:honorValue "European Professional Karate Association (EPKA) middleweight champion" ;
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    ns2:quotation "Jean-Claude Van Damme ne possède aucun titre de karaté." ;
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    ns2:quotation "As a teenager, he won the middleweight championship of the European Professional Karate Association in 1979 and the Mr. Belgium bodybuilding title in 1978." ;
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