Assertion: desert's area | /r/CapableOf | become known in contradistinction
Facets:
value: as the "western desert"
type: OTHER
value: to the eastern desert
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: With the organization of the Italian colony of Libya in the 20th century the term "Libyan Desert" for this region became a misnomer, and the area of desert within Egypt became known as the "Western Desert" (i.e. west of the Nile, in contradistinction to the Eastern Desert, east of the Nile).