Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti

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former administrative region former region of Chad

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti was a former administrative region in northern Chad, known for its vast Sahara desert landscapes, including the Ennedi Plateau and Tibesti Mountains, and its predominantly Toubou (Tebu) population.

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All labels observed (11)

Label	Occurrences
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti canonical	4
Ennedi Plateau	4
Borkou region	3
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region	2
Ennedi region	2
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (former region)	1
Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti area	1
Ennedi Massif	1
Saharan highlands	1
Tibesti Region	1
Tibesti region of Chad	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative region ⓘ former region of Chad ⓘ
administrativeStatus	abolished ⓘ
areaRankingInChad	largest region by area before 2008 reorganization ⓘ
borderCountry	Libya ⓘ Niger ⓘ Sudan ⓘ
borderRegionOfChad	Batha ⓘ Bornu Empire ⓘ surface form: Kanem Ouaddaï ⓘ Wadi Fira ⓘ
capital	Faya-Largeau ⓘ
climate	hot desert climate ⓘ
contains	Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Borkou region Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ennedi Plateau Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ennedi region Tibesti Mountains ⓘ Tibesti Mountains ⓘ surface form: Tibesti region
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Chad ⓘ
dissolvedInto	Borkou ⓘ surface form: Borkou Region Ennedi ⓘ surface form: Ennedi Region Tibesti Region ⓘ
economicActivity	oasis agriculture ⓘ pastoralism ⓘ trade routes across Sahara ⓘ
highestPointOfChadLocatedIn	Emi Koussi ⓘ
historicalUse	trans-Saharan caravan routes ⓘ
largestCity	Faya-Largeau ⓘ
locatedIn	Sahel ⓘ surface form: northern Chad
namedAfter	Borkou ⓘ Ennedi ⓘ Tibesti Mountains ⓘ surface form: Tibesti
notableFeature	rock formations of Ennedi Plateau ⓘ volcanic peaks of Tibesti Mountains ⓘ
notablePeak	Emi Koussi ⓘ
officialLanguage	Arabic ⓘ French ⓘ
partOf	Sahara Desert ⓘ
populationDensity	very low ⓘ
predominantEthnicGroup	Tebu ⓘ Toubou ⓘ
religionMajority	Islam ⓘ
terrain	desert ⓘ mountainous areas ⓘ plateau ⓘ
timeZone	UTC+1 ⓘ

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
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- 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: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti
Description of subject: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti was a former administrative region in northern Chad, known for its vast Sahara desert landscapes, including the Ennedi Plateau and Tibesti Mountains, and its predominantly Toubou (Tebu) population.

Referenced by (21)

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

Tebu → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

Central Sahara → contains → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi Plateau

Tibesti Mountains → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou region

Tibesti Mountains → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tibesti Region

Toubou → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou region

Toubou → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi region

Toubou → populationCenter → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tibesti region of Chad

Toubou → populationCenter → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region

Teda → politicalRegion → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti → contains → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi Plateau

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti → contains → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou region

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti → contains → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi region

Daza → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

Borkou → partOf → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (former region)

Adrar des Ifoghas mountains → partOf → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

subject surface form: Adrar des Ifoghas

this entity surface form: Saharan highlands

Battle of Faya-Largeau (1980) → locatedIn → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region

Ennedi → hasPart → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi Plateau

Ennedi → hasPart → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ennedi Massif

Chad (region proximity via Fezzan) → hasMountainRange → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

subject surface form: Chad

this entity surface form: Ennedi Plateau

Faya-Largeau → partOf → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ

this entity surface form: Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti area

Gorane people → region → Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti ⓘ