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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.

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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

#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