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Mission Hill — called “the Mission”

An attested claim that Mission Hill is called “the Mission”. Clipped form. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Mission Hill, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.

Mission Hill is called the Mission

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
Mission Hill
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
Clipped form.

Evidence

English Wikipedia, “Mission Hill, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026

Parker Hill, Back of The Hill, and Calumet Square are areas within the Mission Hill, an officially designated neighborhood in Boston (as attested by numerous signs prohibiting parking without a suitable Mission Hill neighborhood residential sticker, which only residents can procure legally).

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:claim:mission-hill-vernacular-name-the-mission
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/claim/mission-hill-vernacular-name-the-mission
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/claim/mission-hill-vernacular-name-the-mission.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
Mission_Hill,_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

#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