freebase city regions above neighborhood - freebase

Question

Using freebase how can I find say, all the burrows/subcities of NY? (queens, brooklyn, etc.)
And will it be similar to other cities? Say if I want to know the subdivisions of Prague (Zizkov, Old Town, etc.) or Berlin, etc?
I've tried various combos but haven't hit one yet.
{
"id": "/en/new_york",
"guid": null,
"name": null,
"/location/location/containedby": [
],
"/location/location/contains" : [],
"/location/place_with_neighborhoods/neighborhoods": [
]
}​

Answer 1

The property /location/location/contains is the one that you want, but you're going to have two problems:
It's only sparsely populated
It has multiple levels of containment as a hack to work around API limitations
There's not much you can do about #1 unless you want to work on improving the data yourself. For #2, you can subtract the set of locations which are contained in another location in the "contains" set.

Answer 2

Someone might be able to give a better answer but this will get major districts like in NY but probably not for smaller cities which are more like regions.
{
"id": "/en/new_york",
"guid": null,
"name": null,
"/location/location/containedby": [
],
"/location/location/contains" : [
"name": null,
"type": "/location/citytown"
]
}​
or to select multiple items that might be it
{
"id": "/en/new_york",
"guid": null,
"name": null,
"/location/location/containedby": [
],
"/location/location/contains" : [
"name": null,
"type|=" : [
"/location/citytown",
"/location/neighborhood",
"/location/administrative_division",
"/location/de_borough",
"/location/place_with_neighborhoods/neighborhoods"
]
]
}​