Lake Assal
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Lake Assal is a hypersaline crater lake in Djibouti renowned as the lowest point on the African continent and one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lake Assal canonical | 6 |
| Lake Asal | 1 |
| Lake Assal depression | 1 |
| Lake Assal shoreline | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crater lake
ⓘ
endorheic lake ⓘ natural geographic feature ⓘ salt lake ⓘ |
| averageSummerTemperature | extremely high ⓘ |
| basinType | endorheic ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| coordinates | 11.66°N 42.41°E ⓘ |
| country | Djibouti ⓘ |
| distanceFromCapital | about 120 km west of Djibouti City ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
salt extraction
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | about −155 m ⓘ |
| elevationRelativeToSeaLevel | below sea level ⓘ |
| geologicalOrigin | tectonic and volcanic activity ⓘ |
| geologicalSetting | triple junction of African, Somali and Arabian plates ⓘ |
| hydrologicalBalance | dominated by evaporation ⓘ |
| inflow |
hot springs
ⓘ
subterranean connections to the Red Sea ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Tadjourah Region ⓘ |
| locatedInDepression |
Danakil Desert
ⓘ
surface form:
Afar Depression
|
| locatedInDesert | Danakil Desert ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Africa ⓘ |
| lowestPointOf |
Africa
ⓘ
surface form:
African continent
Djibouti ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | about 40 m ⓘ |
| mineralResource | salt ⓘ |
| nearbySea | Gulf of Tadjoura ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement | Tadjoura ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being below sea level
ⓘ
extreme salinity ⓘ salt flats ⓘ |
| outflow | evaporation ⓘ |
| partOfRiftSystem |
Afar Triangle
ⓘ
East African Rift ⓘ |
| recognizedAs |
lowest land depression in Africa
ⓘ
one of the saltiest lakes in the world ⓘ |
| regionLanguage |
Afar
ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ |
| rimType | crater-like depression ⓘ |
| salinity | among the highest of any body of water on Earth ⓘ |
| salinityComparedToOcean | significantly higher than average ocean salinity ⓘ |
| shoreCharacteristic | thick salt crusts ⓘ |
| surfaceArea | approximately 54 km² ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
lava fields
ⓘ
volcanic formations ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | on the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites ⓘ |
| waterColor | intense turquoise ⓘ |
| waterType | hypersaline ⓘ |
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: Lake Assal Description of subject: Lake Assal is a hypersaline crater lake in Djibouti renowned as the lowest point on the African continent and one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lake Assal shoreline
this entity surface form:
Lake Asal
subject surface form:
Great Rift Valley system
this entity surface form:
Lake Assal depression