Claim · the grey record
West End — called “the West End”
An attested claim that West End is called “the West End”. A neighborhood largely demolished in 1958 whose name survives its fabric. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on West End, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
West End is called the West End
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
- West End
- 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
- A neighborhood largely demolished in 1958 whose name survives its fabric.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “West End, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
The West End is a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bounded generally by Cambridge Street to the south, the Charles River to the west and northwest, North Washington Street on the north and northeast, and New Sudbury Street on the east.
· source
Related records
- about — West End
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:west-end-vernacular-name-the-west-end
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/west-end-vernacular-name-the-west-end
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/west-end-vernacular-name-the-west-end.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
- West_End,_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 |