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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.

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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

#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