Shura Council

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The Shura Council is Qatar’s advisory and legislative body, responsible for debating and approving laws and overseeing aspects of government policy.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Shura Council canonical 3
Majlis al-Shura 1
Majlis al-Umma 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf advisory body
legislature
unicameral legislature
branchOfGovernment legislative branch
canAmend draft laws
canApprove draft laws
canIssue recommendations to the government
canReject draft laws
canSummon government ministers for questioning
constitutionalRole oversight of the executive branch
participation in law-making
country Qatar
governingBodyOf legislative affairs in Qatar
governmentFunction oversight of government policy
governs national legislation in Qatar
hasAuthorityOver public policy matters in Qatar
hasBudgetaryPower approving the state budget
reviewing the state budget
hasCommittees specialized committees
hasJurisdiction Qatar
surface form: State of Qatar
hasPlenarySessions yes
hasSessionType extraordinary sessions
ordinary sessions
isPartOf political system of Qatar
languageOfProceedings Arabic
legalStatus constitutional body
legislativeFunction approving laws
debating laws
locatedInTimeZone Arabia Standard Time
meetsIn Doha
meetsInBuilding Shura Council building in Doha
nativeNameLanguage Arabic
numberOfChambers 1
officialName Shura Council self-linksurface differs
surface form: Majlis al-Shura

Shura Council self-linksurface differs
oversees implementation of laws
politicalSystemContext absolute monarchy of Qatar
responsibleFor discussing economic policy
discussing foreign policy issues
discussing social policy
role advising the Emir of Qatar
approving the state budget
questioning ministers
reviewing draft legislation
seat Doha
subjectOf Qatari Constitution provisions
supervises aspects of executive policy
typeOfParliament consultative assembly

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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".
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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Shura Council
Description of subject: The Shura Council is Qatar’s advisory and legislative body, responsible for debating and approving laws and overseeing aspects of government policy.

Referenced by (6)

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

Qatar legislature Shura Council
Rashidun Caliphate legislativeBody Shura Council
this entity surface form: Shura
Council of the Nation nativeName Shura Council
this entity surface form: Majlis al-Umma
Shura Council officialName Shura Council self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Shura Council (Qatar)
Shura Council officialName Shura Council self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Shura Council (Qatar)
this entity surface form: Majlis al-Shura
Government of Qatar legislativeBody Shura Council