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administrative territorial entity of the Philippines

vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity-of-the-philippines · thing-q1350310

Let an agent explain the administrative divisions of the Philippines and their levels, relay the legal framework, counts and special cases from official sources, describe city districts and the Bangsamoro arrangement, and distinguish legal units from informal puroks and from congressional districts.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.PLC
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Understand What the divisions are.

Definition

Levels.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What are the levels of Philippine administrative divisions from region to barangay and purok? definition
  2. Is the question about the system, a level, a specific place or an electoral district? boundary

Special

Special cases.

Special

Special.

  1. How are Metro Manila, highly urbanised city districts, sub-provinces and Bangsamoro organised? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific unit? action
Law Legal framework.

Code

Local Government Code.

Code

Code.

  1. What does the Local Government Code set for powers, creation and conversion of units? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Bangsamoro

Bangsamoro.

Bangsamoro

Bangsamoro.

  1. How is the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region governed, with the peace process attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Data Data.

Codes

Geographic codes.

Codes

Codes.

  1. How does the Philippine Standard Geographic Code identify units? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Counts

Counts.

Counts

Counts.

  1. How many regions, provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays exist today? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the list of provinces of the Philippines? action
Context History and comparison.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the divisions develop from Spanish and American rule to the present? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of the Philippines? action

Comparison

Comparison.

Comparison

Comparison.

  1. How does the Philippine system compare with other Southeast Asian countries? provenance
  2. Which entry fits administrative division? action

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Physical world and living systems
Entry kind
thing
Plane
PHY
Domain
PHY.PLC
Other names and narrower kinds
Districts of Iloilo City, district of Manila, district of Davao City, Administrative divisions of Metro Manila, sub-province of the Philippines, purok

What it is Filled

Any of the units into which the Philippines is divided for government, from the regions and provinces through cities and municipalities to the barangays and their informal puroks, with historical sub-provinces, the districts of highly urbanised cities such as Manila, Davao City and Iloilo City, and the special arrangement of Metro Manila as the National Capital Region; the system is set by the Local Government Code of 1991 and includes the autonomous Bangsamoro region.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent explain the administrative divisions of the Philippines and their levels, relay the legal framework, counts and special cases from official sources, describe city districts and the Bangsamoro arrangement, and distinguish legal units from informal puroks and from congressional districts.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Multi-level system
  • Barangay base
  • Local Government Code
  • Autonomous region

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Present an outdated count of provinces or cities as current.
  • Confuse city districts with congressional districts.
  • Present informal puroks as legal units of government.
  • Publish residents' personal data from barangay records.

Only with a human decision

  • Using unit boundaries for elections or allocation of public funds.

May

  • Describe the levels of local government in the Philippines from regions to barangays.
  • Report counts of provinces, cities and barangays with the date and source.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Boundaries decide representation and the share of public money a community gets.
  • Barangay records hold personal data on residents.

Who is affected

  • Residents
  • Local officials
  • Voters

Owners Filled

Steward

The national government and its statistics authority, which maintains the standard codes.

Master systems

  • Philippine standard geographic code

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q1048835 - registry parent class
  • Q3268571 - registry parent class

related

  • administrative territorial entity of a single country - in registry terms
  • political territorial entity - in registry terms
  • Local Government Code of 1991 - in the Philippines
  • barangay - the smallest unit

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity-of-the-philippines
  • Wikidata: Q1350310 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1350310)

Direct properties required Filled

  • regions: 17 count - including NCR and Bangsamoro
  • provinces: 82 count
  • cities: 149 count - approximately
  • barangays: about 42000 count

Recognition required Filled

  • Government units of the Philippines
  • Regions, provinces, cities, municipalities, barangays, puroks, city districts, sub-provinces, Metro Manila
  • Congressional districts are electoral; puroks are informal
  • Not a visible object; administrative units.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • explain levels
  • relay framework and counts
  • describe special cases
  • distinguish related units

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Stale counts after new cities and provinces
  • Confusing city districts with congressional districts
  • Registry aliases mixing formal and informal units

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Philippine Constitution and Local Government Code of 1991
  • Bangsamoro Organic Law
  • Philippine Standard Geographic Code

Context of use required Filled

  • Organising government in the Philippines.
  • regions including the National Capital Region
  • provinces and historical sub-provinces
  • cities including highly urbanised and component cities
  • municipalities
  • barangays and puroks
  • city districts of Manila, Davao City and Iloilo City
  • the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q1350310: administrative territorial entity of the Philippines - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Administrative divisions of the Philippines - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should barangay, province and Metro Manila be separate primary entries?
  • How should official sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming city districts and informal units; should they be split off?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1350310/spec.json