Boston, Massachusetts

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city state capital

Boston, Massachusetts is a historic New England city and the capital of Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, prestigious universities, and cultural and economic influence.

Aliases (16)

Boston ×917
Boston, Massachusetts, United States ×144
City of Boston ×89
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay ×14
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony ×13
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America ×5
Downtown Boston ×2
BOS ×1
Boston (in colonial period) ×1
Boston (via some services) ×1
Boston city center ×1
Boston downtown ×1
Boston, Massachusetts (inferred) ×1
City of Boston, Massachusetts ×1
city of Boston ×1
downtown Boston ×1

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city → state capital →
borderedBy	Brookline, Massachusetts → Cambridge, Massachusetts → Chelsea, Massachusetts → Quincy, Massachusetts → Somerville, Massachusetts →
capitalOf	Commonwealth of Massachusetts →
climate	humid continental climate →
country	United States →
countySeatOf	Suffolk County, Massachusetts →
event	Boston Massacre → Boston Tea Party → Siege of Boston →
foundedBy	Puritan settlers from England →
foundedIn	1630 →
governedBy	Mayor–Council government system →
hasAirport	Logan International Airport →
hasCulturalInstitution	Boston Public Library (Copley Square main branch) → Boston Symphony Orchestra → Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum → Museum of Fine Arts, Boston →
hasHistoricSite	Bunker Hill Monument → Faneuil Hall → Old North Church → Old State House →
hasNickname	Beantown → The Cradle of Liberty → The Hub →
hasPort	Port of Boston →
hasSportsTeam	Boston Bruins → Boston Celtics → Boston Red Sox → New England Patriots (plays in nearby Foxborough) →
hasSportsVenue	Fenway Park → TD Garden →
hasTransitSystem	Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) →
hasUniversity	Boston College (in the Boston metropolitan area) → Boston University → Northeastern University →
knownFor	cultural institutions and museums → financial and innovation sectors → historic Freedom Trail → medical and biotech research → prestigious universities and colleges → role in the American Revolution → sports teams and passionate fan base →
locatedIn	Suffolk County, Massachusetts →
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone →
locatedOn	Atlantic coast →
majorEvent	Boston Marathon →
majorIndustry	finance and insurance → healthcare and biotechnology → higher education → technology and innovation →
metropolitanAreaPopulation	over 4,800,000 (Greater Boston, early 2020s) →
namedAfter	Boston, Lincolnshire, England →
nearUniversity	Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) → Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) →
officialLanguageStatus	English is the predominant language →
partOf	Greater Boston metropolitan area →
population	approximately 650,000 (city proper, early 2020s) →
region	New England →
state	Massachusetts →
traversedByRiver	Charles River →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 1,758)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
1915 World Series ("Boston") → 1916 World Series ("Boston") → 1967 Boston Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season ("Boston") → 1969 NBA Finals ("Boston") → 1975 World Series ("Boston") → 1986 World Series ("Boston") → 1996 NHL All-Star Game ("Boston") → 2008 NBA Finals ("Boston") → 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ("Boston") → Aldrich Hall ("Boston") → Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College ("Boston") → Back Bay Fens ("Boston") → Beacon Hill ("Boston") → Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ("Boston") → Beth Israel Hospital ("Boston") → Black Falcon Cruise Terminal ("Boston") → Boston Braves (AHL) ("Boston") → Boston Breakers ("Boston") → Boston Bruins ("Boston") → Boston Celtics → Boston Children’s Hospital ("Boston") → Boston College Eagles men's ice hockey ("Boston") → Boston Cooking School ("Boston") → Boston Daily Advertiser ("Boston") → Boston Fish Pier ("Boston") → Boston Garden ("Boston") → Boston Police Department ("Boston") → Boston Symphony Orchestra ("Boston") → Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum ("Boston") → Boston University Bridge ("Boston") → Boston University School of Law ("Boston") → Boston University School of Medicine ("Boston") → Boston University School of Medicine ("Boston") → Boston University School of Public Health ("Boston") → Boston University Terriers field hockey team ("Boston") → Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey ("Boston") → Boston University Terriers men's lacrosse team ("Boston") → Boston University Terriers women’s lacrosse team ("Boston") → Boston campus ("Boston") → Bouvé College of Health Sciences ("Boston") → Bowditch School (Boston) ("Boston") → Braves Field ("Boston") → Brigham and Women’s Hospital ("Boston") → Broadway (South Boston) ("Boston") → Butler station ("Boston") → Causeway Street ("Boston") → Charles River Campus ("Boston") → Charles River Esplanade ("Boston") → Charles River Park residential complex ("Boston") → Charlie ("Boston") → Christ Church ("Boston") → Church of the Advent, Boston (additions and alterations) ("Boston") → College of Arts & Sciences (Boston University) ("Boston") → College of Arts, Media and Design ("Boston") → College of Communication ("Boston") → College of Engineering (Boston University) ("Boston") → College of Engineering (Northeastern University) ("Boston") → College of Fine Arts (Boston University) ("Boston") → College of General Studies ("Boston") → College of Science (Northeastern University) ("Boston") → Commonwealth Pier ("Boston") → Copley station ("Boston") → Copp's Hill Burying Ground ("Boston") → D'Amore-McKim School of Business ("Boston") → Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ("Boston") → Department of Health Policy and Management ("Boston") → Dorchester High School for Girls ("Boston") → East Campus ("Boston") → Evening Institute for Younger Men ("Boston") → Exchange Place, Boston ("Boston") → Fenway Park ("Boston") → Fenway station ("Boston") → Forest Hills Cemetery ("Boston") → Franklin Park ("Boston") → Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies ("Boston") → Freedom Trail ("Boston") → Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series ("Boston") → Game 5 of the 2004 American League Championship Series ("Boston") → Government Center station ("Boston") → Green Monster ("Boston") → Harvard Bridge ("Boston") → Harvard Business School ("Boston") → Harvard Department of Ophthalmology ("Boston") → Harvard Medical School ("Boston") → Harvard School of Dental Medicine ("Boston") → Harvard Stadium ("Boston") → Head of the Charles Regatta ("Boston") → Huntington Avenue Grounds ("Boston") → Hyde Park, Boston ("Boston") → Hynes Convention Center station ("Boston") → Impossible Dream season ("Boston") → Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ("Boston") → Jackson Square station ("Boston") → James R. Osgood & Co. ("Boston") → John Adams Courthouse ("Boston") → Kenmore station ("Boston") → Khoury College of Computer Sciences ("Boston") → King's Chapel Burying Ground ("Boston") → Long Wharf, Boston ("Boston") → Longwood station ("Boston") → Lucky the Leprechaun ("Boston") → MBTA Blue Line ("Boston") → Massachusetts Appeals Court ("Boston") → Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences ("Boston") → Massachusetts Eye and Ear ("Boston") → Massachusetts Governor's Council → Massachusetts State House (colonial sites) ("Boston") → Medical Campus ("Boston") → Metropolitan College ("Boston") → Mission Church ("Boston") → Monster Seats ("Boston") → Mystic River ("Boston") → Mystic River Bridge ("Boston") → New England Aquarium ("Boston") → Nickerson Field ("Boston") → North Station ("Boston") → Northeastern Huskies ("Boston") → Northeastern University ("Boston") → Northeastern University ("Boston") → Northeastern University School of Law ("Boston") → Old Corner Bookstore ("Boston") → Old South Church ("Boston") → Old South Meeting House ("Boston") → Old State House (Boston) ("Boston") → Paul Revere House ("Boston") → Peter Bent Brigham Hospital ("Boston") → Phipps Street ("Boston") → Public Garden ("Boston") → Questrom School of Business ("Boston") → Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering ("Boston") → Revolutionary Spaces ("Boston") → Roxbury Crossing station ("Boston") → School of Law ("Boston") → Science Park station ("Boston") → Shawmut ("Boston") → Shawmut Center ("Boston") → Simmons University ("Boston") → South End Grounds ("Boston") → Stony Brook ("Boston") → Suffolk County Superior Court (historic courthouse building) ("Boston") → Sullivan & Worcester ("Boston") → Symphony Hall ("Boston") → Symphony station ("Boston") → TD Garden ("Boston") → Ted Williams Tunnel ("Boston") → The Boston Globe ("Boston") → The Boston Globe ("Boston") → The Christian Science Monitor ("Boston") → The Fens ("Boston") → Theatre District ("Boston") → Ticknor, Reed & Fields ("Boston") → Triumph of Religion murals ("Boston") → Tufts University School of Medicine ("Boston") → University of Massachusetts Boston ("Boston") → WBZ (AM) ("Boston") → WEEI-FM ("Boston") → WHDH (AM) → Wentworth Institute of Technology ("Boston") → West Campus ("Boston") → Wheelock College campus of Boston University ("Boston") → Wheelock College of Education & Human Development ("Boston") → Winter Street (Boston) ("Boston") → World Marathon Majors ("Boston") → World Trade Center Boston ("Boston") →	city
American Woman Suffrage Association ("Boston") → Blades the Bruin → Boston Basketball Partners L.L.C. ("Boston") → Boston Breakers → Boston Pops Orchestra → Boston Red Sox ("Boston") → Boston Symphony Orchestra → Cedric Maxwell ("Boston") → Celtics Crossover Gaming → Charles Adams ("Boston") → Charles Allerton Coolidge ("Boston") → Charles H. Taylor → Charles Hercules Rutan → Children’s Cancer Research Foundation ("Boston") → Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson ("Boston") → Frederick Tudor ("Boston") → George Foster Shepley → Joseph "Sport" Sullivan ("Boston") → Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society ("Boston") → Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company ("Boston") → Rich Gotham → Sam Jones ("Boston") → Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge ("Boston") → Silk Road Ensemble ("Boston") → Solomon Willard → Spotlight investigative team ("Boston") → Ticknor and Fields → Ticknor, Reed & Fields → Tom Werner ("Boston") → United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts →	basedIn
Charles Bulfinch → Dorothy Quincy ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Increase Mather ("Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay") → John Endecott ("Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony") → John Hancock → John Leverett ("Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony") → John Winthrop ("Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony") → Nguyen Van Thieu ("Boston") → Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Ralph Adams Cram ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Reginald C. Lewis ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Samuel Gridley Howe ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Samuel Sewall ("Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay") → Wait Winthrop ("Boston") → Walter Gropius ("Boston") → Willard Van Orman Quine ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → William Stoughton ("Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay") →	deathPlace
Boston College ("Boston") → Boston Convention and Exhibition Center ("Boston") → Boston Fire Department → Boston Harbor ("Boston") → Boston Hospital for Women ("Boston") → CharlieTicket → KBOS ("Boston") → Logan International Airport ("Boston") → MBTA Commuter Rail at Fenway station ("Boston") → MBTA Green Line E branch ("Boston") → MBTA Type 7 Light Rail Vehicle ("Boston") → MBTA Type 9 Light Rail Vehicle ("Boston") → Mattapan Trolley ("Boston") → Porter Airlines ("Boston") → School of Hospitality Administration ("Boston") →	cityServed
Ben Bradlee ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Benjamin Franklin ("Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay") → Charles Bulfinch → Daniel Dennett ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Dorothy Quincy ("Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay") → Eric Raymond ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Gardiner Greene Hubbard ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → John E. Sununu ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → John Singleton Copley ("Boston") → Mark Bellhorn ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Robert Lowell ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Samuel Gridley Howe ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Wait Winthrop ("Boston") →	birthPlace
Bostonian Society ("City of Boston") → Charlie on the MTA ("Boston") → Continental Artillery ("Boston") → Frances Appleton ("Boston") → Journal, 1774–1775 → Learning, Virtue, Piety → Liberty Pole ("Boston") → Lucy Flucker Knox ("Boston") → Martin Richard ("city of Boston") → Mather family ("Boston") → Wally the Green Monster → William Tudor → Winthrop family ("Boston") →	associatedWith
Boston University Bridge ("Boston") → Boston and Albany Railroad Highland branch → Boston–Portland main line → Emerald Necklace park system ("downtown Boston") → Longfellow Bridge ("Boston") → Massachusetts Avenue (Cambridge) ("Boston") → Massachusetts Route 9 → Massachusetts Turnpike ("Boston") → Massachusetts Turnpike ("Boston") → Route 1A (Massachusetts) → Route 28 (Massachusetts) ("Boston") → Tobin Bridge →	connects
Arlington Street ("Boston") → Arlington station ("Boston") → Art Square ("Boston") → Brigham Circle station ("Boston") → Cambridge Street (Boston) ("Boston") → Charles River Campus ("Boston") → Charles Street (Boston) ("Boston") → Impossible Dream ("Boston") → JFK/UMass ("Boston") → Lansdowne station ("Boston") → Roxbury ("Boston") →	hasCity
Beacon Hill ("City of Boston") → Columbia Point ("City of Boston") → Dewey Square ("City of Boston") → Fields Corner commercial district ("City of Boston") → Government Center, Boston ("City of Boston") → Harborwalk ("City of Boston") → Inner Harbor ("City of Boston") → Longwood Medical Area ("City of Boston") → Public Garden ("City of Boston") → West End (Boston) ("City of Boston") →	governedBy
Dominion of New England ("Boston") → Government of Massachusetts ("Boston") → Massachusetts ("Boston") → Massachusetts ("Boston") → Massachusetts Bay Colony ("Boston") → Massachusetts colonial legislature ("Boston") → Province of Massachusetts Bay ("Boston") → Province of Massachusetts Bay ("Boston") → Province of New England ("Boston") →	capital
30th Street Station ("Boston") → Albany–Rensselaer station ("Boston (via some services)") → Concord Turnpike ("Boston") → Massachusetts Route 3 → North Leominster → Quincy Adams ("Boston") → Shirley station → Watertown Square → Wedgemere station →	connectsTo
American Social Science Association ("Boston") → Bell Telephone Company → Boston Athletic Association → Boston Basketball Partners L.L.C. ("Boston, Massachusetts, United States") → Boston Elevated Railway ("Boston") → Boston Globe Media Partners → Boston Police Department → Boston and Lowell Railroad → Boston and Maine Railroad →	headquartersLocation
Cambridge, Massachusetts → Chelsea, Massachusetts → Chelsea, Massachusetts → Dedham, Massachusetts → Everett, Massachusetts → Newton, Massachusetts → Quincy ("Boston") → Revere, Massachusetts →	borderedBy
Boston Harbor ("City of Boston") → Cambridge, Massachusetts → Chestnut Hill, Newton → Massachusetts coastline ("Boston") → Newton, Massachusetts → North Shore (Massachusetts) ("Boston") → Watertown, Massachusetts →	adjacentTo
Arthur D. Little, Inc. ("Boston") → NBBJ ("Boston") → Sidley Austin LLP ("Boston") → Sullivan & Worcester → Sullivan & Worcester LLP ("Boston") → Tishman Speyer ("Boston") →	hasOfficeIn
Quincy family of Massachusetts ("Boston") → RSN ("Boston") → Red Sox Nation ("Boston") → Rhett the Boston Terrier ("Boston") → Ticknor and Fields ("Boston") →	associatedWithCity
Gone Baby Gone ("Boston") → Good Will Hunting ("Boston") → Malcolm X (1992 film) ("Boston") → The Departed ("Boston") → The French Chef →	filmingLocation
Boston Landmark (some components) ("City of Boston") → Cambridge Street (Boston) ("City of Boston") → Chelsea Creek ("City of Boston") → Pemberton Square ("City of Boston") → Phipps Street ("City of Boston") →	hasJurisdiction
Mary Goose ("Boston") → Patrick Carr ("Boston") → Robert Treat Paine ("Boston") → Samuel Gray ("Boston") →	burialPlace
Interstate 90 → Massachusetts Route 9 → Route 2 (Massachusetts) → U.S. Route 20 →	easternTerminus
Arthur D. Little, Inc. ("Boston") → Little, Brown and Company ("Boston") → Revere Copper Company → The Atlantic ("Boston") →	formerHeadquartersLocation
Boston Fire Department ("City of Boston") → Charles Street, Boston ("City of Boston") → Copley Square ("City of Boston") → Faneuil Hall ("City of Boston") →	governingBody
Boston Massacre ("Boston") → Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War ("Boston") → United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts → William Dawes’s warning ride ("Boston") →	hasLocation
East Coast of the United States ("Boston") → Northeast megalopolis ("Boston") → Northeastern United States ("Boston") → Northern United States ("Boston") →	hasMajorCity
Boston City Council ("City of Boston") → Boston Police Department → Intolerable Acts ("Boston") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Boston Strong ("Boston") → Lowell family ("Boston") → The Diary of Samuel Sewall →	associatedWithPlace
Charles River ("Boston") → Charles River (Boston and Cambridge) ("Boston") → Chelsea Creek →	flowsThrough
American Academy of Arts and Sciences → Beanpot tournament → Boston College →	foundingLocation
Broad Sound ("Boston") → Lexington, Massachusetts → Storrs, Connecticut →	hasNearbyCity
Cotton Mather ("Boston") → Liberty Boys ("Boston") →	activeIn
Belmont, Massachusetts → Brookline ("Boston") →	borders
Hult International Business School ("Boston") → Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University ("Boston") →	campus
1967 World Series ("Boston") → 2004 American League Championship Series →	cityGame3
1967 World Series ("Boston") → 2004 American League Championship Series →	cityGame4
1967 World Series ("Boston") → 2004 American League Championship Series →	cityGame5
1912 World Series ("Boston") → 2004 World Series ("Boston") →	cityOfALHomeGames
WBZ-FM → WEEI (AM) →	cityOfLicense
Boston–Concord main line ("Boston") → Fitchburg Railroad →	connectedCity
Massachusetts ("Boston") → Suffolk County, Massachusetts →	contains
Eastern United States ("Boston") → Massachusetts ("Boston") →	containsCity
Nature (essay) ("Boston") → The Battle Hymn of the Republic ("Boston") →	firstPublicationPlace
Massachusetts Horticultural Society → The Concert ("Boston") →	formerLocation
Boston Fire Department → Church of Christ, Scientist →	hasHeadquartersLocation
Haifa ("Boston") → Melbourne ("Boston") →	hasSisterCity
Boston Bruins ("BOS") →	abbreviation
Dorchester ("Boston") →	annexedBy
Hyde Park, Boston ("Boston") →	annexedTo
The Hub ("Boston city center") →	appliedTo
USBOS ("Boston") →	associatedCity
A Call from Heaven ("Boston") →	associatedPlace
The Selling of Joseph ("Boston") →	authorResidence
Boston Architectural Club ("Boston") →	basedInCity
Interstate 495 (Massachusetts) ("Boston") →	beltwayAround
Charles River ("Boston") →	borderBetween
WEEI (AM) →	broadcastsFrom
New England ("Boston") →	capitalCityOfStateInRegion
Archdiocese of Boston →	cathedralLocation
Transcendentalism →	centeredIn
Greater Boston ("Boston") →	centeredOn
1903 World Series ("Boston") →	city1
Pesky's Pole →	cityContext
1981 NBA Finals ("Boston") →	cityEasternChampion
1967 World Series ("Boston") →	cityGame6
Theatre District ("Boston") →	cityNeighborhoodOf
2013 World Series ("Boston") →	cityOfALTeam
1914 World Series ("Boston") →	cityOfChampion
2018 World Series ("Boston") →	cityOfFenwayPark
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company ("Boston") →	cityOfHeadquarters
1918 World Series ("Boston") →	cityOfHomeTeam
The Christian Science Journal ("Boston") →	cityOfPublication
McKim, Mead & White ("Boston") →	cityOfSignificantActivity
Boston University Terriers football team ("Boston") →	cityOfUniversity
Boston Red Stockings ("Boston") →	cityRepresented
Equestrian Statue of George Washington (Boston) ("City of Boston") →	commissionedBy
Route 9 (Massachusetts) →	connectsWith
USS Walke (DD-416) →	constructionSite
Atlantic coast of North America ("Boston") →	containsMajorCity
John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign ("Boston") →	conventionCity
Dwight L. Moody →	convertedToChristianity
Suffolk County, Massachusetts →	countySeat
Head of the Charles Regatta →	courseStartLocation
Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People ("Boston") →	coversLocation
Harvard Bridge ("Boston") →	crossesFrom
1912 World Series ("Boston") →	decidingGameCity
American Airlines Flight 11 ("Boston") →	departureCity
Ellsworth Kelly ("Boston") →	educatedAt
Route 128 ("Boston") →	encircles
Blue Hills Reservation →	extendsInto
Aliyah Boston ("Boston") →	familyName
NBA All-Star Game ("Boston") →	firstEditionCity
The Edge of the Sea ("Boston") →	firstEditionPlace
Bayou Folk ("Boston") →	firstEditionPlaceOfPublication
The Scarlet Letter ("Boston") →	firstPublishedInCity
Muddy River →	formsBoundaryBetween
Bell Telephone Company →	foundedAtLocation
Boston Public Library (Copley Square main branch) ("City of Boston") →	foundedBy
The Atlantic ("Boston") →	foundedIn
Church of Christ, Scientist →	foundedInPlace
1995 World Series ("Boston") →	franchisePreviousTitlesCity
2007 World Series ("Boston") →	game1City
2007 World Series ("Boston") →	game2City
Curse of the Bambino →	geographicContext
Boston City Council ("City of Boston") →	governs
Epic Records ("Boston") →	hasArtist
Milton, Massachusetts →	hasBorderWith
Evening Institute for Younger Men →	hasCampusIn
Shirley, Massachusetts →	hasCommuterRailServiceTo
Greater Boston ("Boston") →	hasCoreCity
Spotlight investigative team ("Boston") →	hasCoverageArea
Atlantic Division →	hasFranchiseFromCity
Terriers ("Boston") →	hasHomeCity
Eastern Massachusetts ("Boston") →	hasLargestCity
Brigham Circle station ("City of Boston") →	hasLocalAuthority
Patriots’ Day →	hasMainCelebrationLocation
Eastern Massachusetts ("Boston") →	hasMajorEconomicCenter
HGA Architects and Engineers ("Boston") →	hasOfficeLocation
Bunker Hill Monument ("Boston") →	hasPanoramicViewOf
Botulf →	hasPlaceNamedAfter
Ayer ("Boston") →	hasRailConnectionTo
Judiciary of Massachusetts →	hasSeat
Archdiocese of Boston ("Boston") →	hasSeeCity
Wollaston neighborhood ("Boston") →	hasTransportConnectionTo
Belfast ("Boston") →	hasTwinTown
New England life ("Boston") →	hasUrbanCenter
Massachusetts Probation Service →	headquarters
Providence Bruins →	NHLParentFranchiseLocation