Quneitra

E537166

city former populated place

Quneitra is a largely destroyed and abandoned city in the Golan Heights that has become a symbol of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Syrian-Israeli tensions.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Quneitra canonical	1
Quneitra (destroyed city)	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ former populated place ⓘ
capitalOf	Quneitra Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	Six-Day War NERFINISHED ⓘ Yom Kippur War NERFINISHED ⓘ
controlledBy	Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ
coordinateLocation	33.125°N 35.823°E ⓘ
country	Syria ⓘ
countryBorder	Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ
currentUse	military zone ⓘ political and war memorial site ⓘ
deFactoControl	Syrian Arab Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
describedAs	ruined city ⓘ
developedAs	market town ⓘ
distanceTo	about 60 km southwest of Damascus ⓘ
elevationAboveSeaLevel	about 940 metres ⓘ
event	Israeli withdrawal under 1974 Disengagement Agreement ⓘ captured by Israel in June 1967 ⓘ extensive destruction prior to Israeli withdrawal ⓘ recaptured by Syria briefly in October 1973 ⓘ returned to Syrian control in 1974 ⓘ
foundedInPeriod	Ottoman era NERFINISHED ⓘ
governorateCapitalMovedTo	Madinat al-Baath NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCrossingPoint	Quneitra Crossing NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasSite	destroyed church ⓘ destroyed hospital ⓘ destroyed mosque ⓘ ruined residential quarters ⓘ
locatedIn	Golan Heights NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeEntity	Quneitra Governorate NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedNear	Syrian–Israeli ceasefire line ⓘ United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	Damascus–Quneitra–Qiryat Shemona road NERFINISHED ⓘ Golan Heights plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ
majorityPopulationBefore1967	Syrian Arabs NERFINISHED ⓘ
monitoredBy	United Nations Disengagement Observer Force NERFINISHED ⓘ
nearbySettlement	Khan Arnabah NERFINISHED ⓘ Madinat al-Baath NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	disputed territory of Golan Heights ⓘ
populationBeforeDestruction	tens of thousands ⓘ
QuneitraCrossingUsedFor	UN personnel movement ⓘ export of Golan Druze apples to Syria ⓘ limited Druze crossings ⓘ
religionBefore1967	predominantly Sunni Muslim ⓘ
replacedBy	Madinat al-Baath as administrative center ⓘ
significance	symbol of Syrian–Israeli tensions ⓘ symbol of destruction of war ⓘ symbol of the Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ
status	largely abandoned ⓘ largely destroyed ⓘ

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: Quneitra
Description of subject: Quneitra is a largely destroyed and abandoned city in the Golan Heights that has become a symbol of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Syrian-Israeli tensions.

Referenced by (2)

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

western Syria → includesCity → Quneitra ⓘ

subject surface form: Western Syria

southern Syria → hasCity → Quneitra ⓘ

subject surface form: Southern Syria

this entity surface form: Quneitra (destroyed city)