Maharbal

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Maharbal was a prominent Carthaginian cavalry commander who served under Hannibal during the Second Punic War, noted for his tactical skill and famous for urging Hannibal to march on Rome after the Battle of Cannae.

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Label Occurrences
Maharbal canonical 1

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Carthaginian military commander
cavalry commander
historical figure
allegiance Carthaginian Empire
surface form: Carthaginian Republic
associatedWith Battle of Cannae
Carthaginian campaigns in Italy
Hannibal's crossing of the Alps
surface form: Hannibal’s Italian campaign
birthPlace unknown
commander Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
surface form: Hannibal
country Carthage
culture Punic (Carthaginian) people
surface form: Punic culture
deathPlace unknown
employer Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
surface form: Hannibal
era Classical antiquity
ethnicGroup Carthaginian
historicalSource Livy
Polybius
historicalStatus semi-legendary
knownForQuote “You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it”
languageSpoken Punic (Carthaginian) people
surface form: Punic
militaryBranch Carthaginian cavalry
militaryConflict Second Punic War
militaryRank cavalry commander
notableAction pursued retreating Roman forces after Cannae
notableFor role in the Battle of Cannae
service under Hannibal during the Second Punic War
urging Hannibal to march on Rome after the Battle of Cannae
occupation cavalry officer
military commander
opponent Roman Republic
regionOfActivity Iberian Peninsula
Italy
roleInBattle cavalry commander at the Battle of Cannae
led Carthaginian cavalry in several engagements in Italy
servedUnder Hannibal (Carthaginian general)
surface form: Hannibal
sideInConflict Second Punic War
surface form: Carthage in the Second Punic War
strategicView advocated immediate march on Rome after Cannae
timePeriod 3rd century BCE

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

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: Maharbal
Description of subject: Maharbal was a prominent Carthaginian cavalry commander who served under Hannibal during the Second Punic War, noted for his tactical skill and famous for urging Hannibal to march on Rome after the Battle of Cannae.

Referenced by (1)

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

Second Punic War hasCommander Maharbal