Siege of Beirut

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battle event in the 1982 Lebanon War military siege

The Siege of Beirut was a major 1982 military confrontation in which Israeli forces encircled and heavily bombarded Lebanon’s capital to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization, causing extensive civilian casualties and destruction.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Siege of Beirut canonical 2
Israeli military occupation of West Beirut 1
Siege of Beirut (1982) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf battle ⓘ
event in the 1982 Lebanon War ⓘ
military siege ⓘ
belligerent Israel ⓘ
Lebanese Front ⓘ
surface form: Lebanese National Movement forces

Palestine Liberation Organization ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
surface form: Syrian Arab Republic
casualties thousands of civilians killed and wounded ⓘ
conflict 1982 Lebanon War ⓘ
country Lebanon ⓘ
endDate 1982-08-21 ⓘ
followedBy PLO evacuation to Tunis and other Arab states ⓘ
deployment of Multinational Force in Lebanon ⓘ
goal expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Beirut ⓘ
hasContext Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ
surface form: Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Lebanese Civil War ⓘ
involves Israeli Ground Forces ⓘ
surface form: Israel Defense Forces ground forces

Israeli Air Force ⓘ
Israeli Navy ⓘ
PLO guerrilla fighters ⓘ
Syrian Arab Army ⓘ
surface form: Syrian Army units
location Beirut ⓘ
Lebanon ⓘ
mediator Philip Habib ⓘ
militaryTactic aerial bombardment ⓘ
artillery bombardment ⓘ
encirclement ⓘ
naval bombardment ⓘ
negotiatedBy United States foreign policy ⓘ
surface form: United States diplomacy
notableCommander Ariel Sharon ⓘ
Mustafa Tlass ⓘ
Rafael Eitan ⓘ
Yasser Arafat ⓘ
notableFeature blockade of West Beirut ⓘ
large-scale displacement of civilians ⓘ
urban warfare in a densely populated capital city ⓘ
opponent Israel Defense Forces ⓘ
1982 Lebanon War ⓘ
surface form: PLO forces in Lebanon

Syrian occupation of Lebanon ⓘ
surface form: Syrian forces in Lebanon
partOf 1982 Lebanon War ⓘ
precededBy 1982 Lebanon War ⓘ
surface form: Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982
relatedEvent Sabra and Shatila massacre ⓘ
result Siege of Beirut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Israeli military occupation of West Beirut

PLO evacuation from Beirut ⓘ
extensive destruction of Beirut infrastructure ⓘ
heavy civilian casualties ⓘ
startDate 1982-06-14 ⓘ
timePeriod Cold War ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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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: Siege of Beirut
Description of subject: The Siege of Beirut was a major 1982 military confrontation in which Israeli forces encircled and heavily bombarded Lebanon’s capital to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization, causing extensive civilian casualties and destruction.

Referenced by (5)

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

1982 Lebanon War → notableEvent → Siege of Beirut ⓘ
Operation Peace for Galilee → relatedEvent → Siege of Beirut ⓘ
Siege of Beirut → result → Siege of Beirut self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Israeli military occupation of West Beirut
Battle of Jezzine → relatedTo → Siege of Beirut ⓘ
this entity surface form: Siege of Beirut (1982)
Memory for Forgetfulness → influencedBy → Siege of Beirut ⓘ
this entity surface form: siege of Beirut