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Fenway — called “the Fenway”

An attested claim that Fenway is called “the Fenway”. Definite article in local use. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Fenway–Kenmore. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.

Fenway is called the Fenway

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
Fenway
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
Definite article in local use.

Evidence

English Wikipedia, “Fenway–Kenmore”, retrieved 2 September 2026

It is considered one neighborhood for administrative purposes, but it is composed of numerous distinct sections (East Fenway/Symphony, West Fenway, Audubon Circle, Kenmore Square) that are almost always referred to as "Fenway", "the Fenway", "Kenmore Square", or "Kenmore".

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Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:claim:fenway-vernacular-name-the-fenway
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/claim/fenway-vernacular-name-the-fenway
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/claim/fenway-vernacular-name-the-fenway.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
Fenway–Kenmore
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