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Beacon Hill — called “the Hill”
An attested claim that Beacon Hill is called “the Hill”. Used within the neighborhood. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Beacon Hill, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Beacon Hill is called the Hill
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
- Beacon 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
- Used within the neighborhood.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Beacon Hill, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
Beacon Hill has three sections: the south slope, the north slope and the "Flat of the Hill", which is a level neighborhood built on landfill, located west of Charles Street and between Beacon and Cambridge streets.
· source
Related records
- about — Beacon Hill
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:beacon-hill-vernacular-name-the-hill
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/beacon-hill-vernacular-name-the-hill
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/beacon-hill-vernacular-name-the-hill.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
- Beacon_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
| # | 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 |