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Chinatown — formerly “the Combat Zone”
An attested claim that Chinatown was formerly named “the Combat Zone”. The adult-entertainment district that adjoined and overlapped Chinatown; a name the city never gave and never removed. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Chinatown, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Chinatown was formerly named the Combat Zone
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
- Chinatown
- Predicate
former_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
- The adult-entertainment district that adjoined and overlapped Chinatown; a name the city never gave and never removed.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Chinatown, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
During this period, city officials also designated an area adjacent to Chinatown as Boston's red light district, also known as the Combat Zone.
· source
Related records
- about — Chinatown
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:chinatown-former-name-the-combat-zone
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/chinatown-former-name-the-combat-zone
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/chinatown-former-name-the-combat-zone.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
- Chinatown,_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 |