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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.
· source
Related records
- about — Jamaica Plain
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
| # | 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 |