Philippine Standard Geographic Code
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The Philippine Standard Geographic Code is a national coding system that uniquely identifies and classifies all geographic and political subdivisions in the Philippines for statistical, administrative, and governance purposes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philippine Standard Geographic Code canonical | 5 |
| PSGC | 1 |
| Philippine Standard Geographic Classification | 1 |
| Philippine Standard Geographic Code system | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13073557 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippine Standard Geographic Code Context triple: [Pambujan, hasLocalGovernmentCodeSystem, Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
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A.
Soccsksargen
Soccsksargen is an administrative region in south-central Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its diverse cultures, agricultural productivity, and coastal economic centers such as General Santos City.
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B.
Pangasinense
Pangasinense is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Pangasinan in the Philippines.
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C.
Philippine PUC
The Philippine Presidential Unit Citation (Philippine PUC) is a military unit award conferred by the President of the Philippines to recognize extraordinary heroism or outstanding performance in action by military units.
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D.
Pamilihang Sapi ng Pilipinas
Pamilihang Sapi ng Pilipinas is the Filipino name for the Philippine Stock Exchange, the country’s national stock exchange where publicly listed companies’ shares are traded.
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E.
Philippine Nautical Highway System
The Philippine Nautical Highway System is an integrated network of highways and roll-on/roll-off ferry routes that connects the major islands of the Philippines to facilitate more efficient transport of people, goods, and vehicles.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippine Standard Geographic Code Target entity description: The Philippine Standard Geographic Code is a national coding system that uniquely identifies and classifies all geographic and political subdivisions in the Philippines for statistical, administrative, and governance purposes.
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A.
Soccsksargen
Soccsksargen is an administrative region in south-central Mindanao in the Philippines, known for its diverse cultures, agricultural productivity, and coastal economic centers such as General Santos City.
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B.
Pangasinense
Pangasinense is an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Pangasinan in the Philippines.
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C.
Philippine PUC
The Philippine Presidential Unit Citation (Philippine PUC) is a military unit award conferred by the President of the Philippines to recognize extraordinary heroism or outstanding performance in action by military units.
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D.
Pamilihang Sapi ng Pilipinas
Pamilihang Sapi ng Pilipinas is the Filipino name for the Philippine Stock Exchange, the country’s national stock exchange where publicly listed companies’ shares are traded.
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E.
Philippine Nautical Highway System
The Philippine Nautical Highway System is an integrated network of highways and roll-on/roll-off ferry routes that connects the major islands of the Philippines to facilitate more efficient transport of people, goods, and vehicles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographic coding system
ⓘ
national standard ⓘ statistical standard ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Philippine Statistics Authority ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
barangays of the Philippines
ⓘ
component cities of the Philippines ⓘ districts of the Philippines ⓘ highly urbanized cities of the Philippines ⓘ independent component cities of the Philippines ⓘ municipalities of the Philippines ⓘ provinces of the Philippines ⓘ regions of the Philippines ⓘ |
| codeStructure |
hierarchical
ⓘ
numeric ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| covers |
island groups of the Philippines
ⓘ
land areas of the Philippines ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
machine-readable
ⓘ
tabular ⓘ |
| governingLaw |
Philippine Statistics Act of 2013
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Statistical Act of 2013
|
| hasComponent |
barangay code
ⓘ
city code ⓘ municipality code ⓘ province code ⓘ region code ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Filipino ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Republic Act No. 10625 ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Philippine Statistics Authority ⓘ |
| officialPublisher | Philippine Statistics Authority ⓘ |
| purpose |
administrative coordination
ⓘ
data harmonization ⓘ governance ⓘ statistical coordination ⓘ unique identification of geographic areas ⓘ |
| replaced |
Philippine Standard Geographic Classification
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Standard Geographic Code
|
| scope |
all geographic areas of the Philippines
ⓘ
all political subdivisions of the Philippines ⓘ |
| shortName |
PSGC
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Standard Geographic Code
|
| updatedBy |
Philippine Statistics Authority Board resolutions
ⓘ
linked to:
Philippine Statistics Authority
|
| updateFrequency | as needed ⓘ |
| updateReason |
boundary changes
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conversion of municipalities to cities ⓘ creation of new local government units ⓘ merger of local government units ⓘ |
| usedBy |
local government units of the Philippines
ⓘ
national government agencies of the Philippines ⓘ planning agencies in the Philippines ⓘ statistical offices in the Philippines ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative reporting
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census operations ⓘ data integration ⓘ geographic classification ⓘ surveys ⓘ time-series comparison of geographic data ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Philippine Standard Geographic Code Description of subject: The Philippine Standard Geographic Code is a national coding system that uniquely identifies and classifies all geographic and political subdivisions in the Philippines for statistical, administrative, and governance purposes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
San Jose
linked to: Philippine Standard Geographic Code
subject linked to:
Compostela
linked to: Philippine Standard Geographic Code
linked to: Philippine Standard Geographic Code