Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus

Target entity: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus
Context triple: [Life of Pompey, featuresEvent, Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus]

• A. defeat of Julius Caesar
  The defeat of Julius Caesar refers to the hoped-for but unrealized objective of his political and military opponents, particularly the Pompeian faction, to overthrow his rising dominance in the late Roman Republic.
• B. Battle of Munda
  The Battle of Munda was the decisive final engagement of Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which he defeated the remaining Pompeian forces in 45 BC in Hispania, securing his uncontested rule over Rome.
• C. Battle of Thapsus
  The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
• D. Battle of Philippi
  The Battle of Philippi was a decisive series of engagements in 42 BC during the Roman civil wars, in which the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian defeated the armies of Julius Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia.
• E. Pompey’s Eastern campaigns
  Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus
Target entity description: Pompey’s defeat at Pharsalus was the decisive 48 BC battle of Caesar’s Civil War in which Julius Caesar crushed Pompey the Great’s forces, effectively ending Pompey’s dominance and reshaping the Roman Republic’s political order.

• A. defeat of Julius Caesar
  The defeat of Julius Caesar refers to the hoped-for but unrealized objective of his political and military opponents, particularly the Pompeian faction, to overthrow his rising dominance in the late Roman Republic.
• B. Battle of Munda
  The Battle of Munda was the decisive final engagement of Julius Caesar’s civil war, in which he defeated the remaining Pompeian forces in 45 BC in Hispania, securing his uncontested rule over Rome.
• C. Battle of Thapsus
  The Battle of Thapsus was a decisive 46 BC engagement in North Africa in which Julius Caesar crushed the remaining Optimates forces, paving the way for his uncontested dominance over the Roman Republic.
• D. Battle of Philippi
  The Battle of Philippi was a decisive series of engagements in 42 BC during the Roman civil wars, in which the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian defeated the armies of Julius Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius in Macedonia.
• E. Pompey’s Eastern campaigns
  Pompey’s Eastern campaigns were a series of mid-1st century BCE Roman military and diplomatic operations through Asia Minor, the Levant, and surrounding regions that dismantled rival powers, expanded Roman territory, and reshaped the political order of the eastern Mediterranean.
• F. None of above. chosen