Claim · the grey record
Back Bay — called “the Back Bay”
An attested claim that Back Bay is called “the Back Bay”. Definite article in local use. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Back Bay, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Back Bay is called the Back Bay
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Back Bay
- Predicate
vernacular_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- Definite article in local use.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Back Bay, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay considers the neighborhood's bounds to be "Charles River on the North; Arlington Street to Park Square on the East; Columbus Avenue to the New York New Haven and Hartford right-of-way (South of Stuart Street and Copley Place), Huntington Avenue, Dalton Street, and the Massachusetts Turnpike on the South; Charlesgate East on the West.
· source
Related records
- about — Back Bay
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:back-bay-vernacular-name-the-back-bay
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/back-bay-vernacular-name-the-back-bay
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/back-bay-vernacular-name-the-back-bay.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- English Wikipedia — source of record
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- Back_Bay,_Boston
- Attribution
- Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rights as stated
- Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki API | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | verify | searched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recorded | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |