hundred
Let an agent explain the historical hundred, relay its role and regional equivalents from history sources, describe the equivalents its aliases name, and distinguish the hundred from the modern county and from the number one hundred.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a hundred is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a hundred as a land division, and how does it differ from a county and the number one hundred? definition
- Is the question about a historical or current unit? boundary
Equivalents
Equivalents.
Equivalents
Equivalents.
- What are the cantref, commote and harde? definition
- Which entry fits the specific equivalent? action
Role Role.
Administration
Administration.
Administration
Administration.
- What administrative role did the hundred serve? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Justice
Justice.
Justice
Justice.
- How did hundreds function in local justice? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
History History.
Origins
Origins.
Origins
Origins.
- Where and when did the hundred originate? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Decline
Decline.
Decline
Decline.
- How did the hundred fall out of use? provenance
- Is the obsolete status clear? boundary
Context Context.
Regions
Regional forms.
Regions
Regions.
- How did hundreds and their equivalents vary by region? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
County
The county.
County
County.
- How did the hundred relate to the county or shire? provenance
- Which entry fits county? 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
- cantref, commote, hundred in Sweden, Harde, hundred of South Australia, hundred of New South Wales
What it is Filled
A hundred is a historical administrative division of land, once used in England and other countries as a subdivision of a county or shire for justice, taxation and local administration; the registry aliases name equivalents such as the Welsh cantref and commote, the Scandinavian harde and the hundreds of Sweden and of parts of Australia. Its origin and exact role varied, and in most places the hundred is now obsolete as a unit of government.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the historical hundred, relay its role and regional equivalents from history sources, describe the equivalents its aliases name, and distinguish the hundred from the modern county and from the number one hundred.
Distinguishing features Filled
- County subdivision
- Justice and taxation role
- Regional equivalents
- Mostly obsolete
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat the hundred as a current administrative unit where it is not.
- Confuse the division with the number one hundred.
- Assume one country's hundred worked the same as another's.
- Invent boundaries not supported by historical sources.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing reconstructed historical boundaries as authoritative.
May
- Describe hundreds as historical divisions, naming the country and period.
- Use historical records of hundreds for genealogy or local history.
Moral aspects Filled
- Historical divisions are part of local identity and heritage.
- Genealogical records using hundreds involve people's family histories.
Who is affected
- Historians
- Genealogists
- Local communities
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a historical division; archives hold the records.
Master systems
- National and county archives
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q56061 - registry parent class
related
- administrative territorial entity - in registry terms
- county
- the number one hundred
- cantref
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.hundred
- Wikidata: Q313354 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313354)
Direct properties required Filled
- role: county subdivision note - historical
- status: mostly obsolete note
- registry parent: administrative territorial entity note
Recognition required Filled
- Historical subdivision of a county
- Cantref, commote, harde, hundreds of Sweden and Australia
- A modern county is a current unit; the number one hundred is unrelated
- Not a visible object; a historical administrative area within a county.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the division
- relay its role and equivalents
- describe named equivalents
- distinguish it from a county
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Treating the hundred as current
- Confusing it with the number
- Assuming one country s role
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Historical administrative practice
Context of use required Filled
- Historically subdividing a county for administration.
- English hundred
- cantref and commote
- harde
- hundred of South Australia
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q313354: hundred - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Hundred (county division) - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should regional equivalents be separate entries?
- How should the obsolete status be noted?
- How should it relate to the county?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q313354/spec.json