Claim · the grey record
East Boston — called “Eastie”
An attested claim that East Boston is called “Eastie”. Formed on the same pattern as Southie. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on East Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
East Boston is called Eastie
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
- East Boston
- Predicate
vernacular_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- well attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- Formed on the same pattern as Southie.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “East Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
East Boston, nicknamed Eastie, is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, which was annexed by the city of Boston in 1836.
· source
Related records
- about — East Boston
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:east-boston-vernacular-name-eastie
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/east-boston-vernacular-name-eastie
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/east-boston-vernacular-name-eastie.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
- East_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 |