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Mattapan — called “Mattapan Square”
An attested claim that Mattapan is called “Mattapan Square”. The commercial centre by which the neighborhood is often meant. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Mattapan. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Mattapan is called Mattapan Square
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
- Mattapan
- 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
- The commercial centre by which the neighborhood is often meant.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Mattapan”, retrieved 2 September 2026
Blue Hill Avenue and Mattapan Square, where Blue Hill Avenue, River Street, and Cummins Highway meet, are the commercial heart of the neighborhood, home to banks, law offices, restaurants, and retail shops.
· source
Related records
- about — Mattapan
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:mattapan-vernacular-name-mattapan-square
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/mattapan-vernacular-name-mattapan-square
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/mattapan-vernacular-name-mattapan-square.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
- Mattapan
- 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 |