rotten borough

C14390
concept

A rotten borough is a parliamentary constituency with a very small or declining population that still retains disproportionate representation and is therefore easily controlled or manipulated.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
rotten borough canonical 6

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: rotten borough
Generated description
A rotten borough is a parliamentary constituency with a very small or declining population that still retains disproportionate representation and is therefore easily controlled or manipulated.

Instances (6)

Instance Via concept surface
Hindon
Tregony
Grampound
Bossiney
Old Sarum
surface form: Old Sarum (UK Parliament constituency)
Aldborough