Piton des Neiges

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Piton des Neiges is a massive extinct shield volcano on Réunion Island and a popular hiking destination known for its panoramic summit views.

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Label Occurrences
Piton des Neiges canonical 4

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf extinct volcano
mountain
shield volcano
age over 2 million years
climateZone tropical
country France
dominantRockType basalt
elevation 10072 ft
3070 m
geologicalOrigin Réunion hotspot
hasCrater yes
hasMarkedTrails yes
hasMountainHut Refuge de la Caverne Dufour
hasSnowOccasionally yes
hazardLevel low volcanic hazard
highestPointOf Mascarene Islands
Réunion
island Réunion
isOlderThan Piton de la Fournaise
knownFor panoramic summit views
sunrise views
lastEruption Holocene
locatedIn Indian Ocean
Réunion
Réunion
surface form: Réunion Island
mountainRange none
nameLanguage French
nameMeaning Snow Peak
nearbyVolcano Piton de la Fournaise
partOf Mascarene Islands
popularFor hiking
mountain tourism
trekking
prominence 3070 m
protectedArea Pitons, cirques and remparts of Réunion Island
surface form: Réunion National Park
standardAscentDuration 2 days
summitAccess hiking trail
summitClimate cool
surroundedBy Cirque de Cilaos
Cirque de Mafate
Cirque de Salazie
tourismImportance major attraction of Réunion
typicalAscentStartPoint Cilaos
Plaine des Cafres
UNESCOInscriptionYear 2010
UNESCOSiteName Pitons, cirques and remparts of Réunion Island
surface form: Pitons, Cirques and Remparts of Reunion Island
UNESCOStatus part of UNESCO World Heritage Site
volcanicField Réunion volcanic province
volcanicStatus extinct

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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: Piton des Neiges
Description of subject: Piton des Neiges is a massive extinct shield volcano on Réunion Island and a popular hiking destination known for its panoramic summit views.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Réunion highestPoint Piton des Neiges
Reunion highestPoint Piton des Neiges
subject surface form: Réunion