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Jamaica Plain — called “JP”

An attested claim that Jamaica Plain is called “JP”. An initialism in general local use. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Jamaica Plain. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.

Jamaica Plain is called JP

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
Jamaica Plain
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
An initialism in general local use.

Evidence

English Wikipedia, “Jamaica Plain”, retrieved 2 September 2026

During the same years, the former Plant Shoe Factory site was redeveloped as JP Plaza, a strip mall, and later a supermarket.

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:claim:jamaica-plain-vernacular-name-jp
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/claim/jamaica-plain-vernacular-name-jp
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/claim/jamaica-plain-vernacular-name-jp.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
Jamaica_Plain
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

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki APIarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2verifysearched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recordedarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3quotetook the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claimarchive-ingest 0.1.0