Pharsalus

Target entity: Pharsalus
Context triple: [Thessaly, containsCity, Pharsalus]

• A. Battle of Pollentia
  The Battle of Pollentia was a pivotal 402 AD clash in northern Italy where Roman forces under Stilicho confronted Alaric’s Visigoths, temporarily halting their advance into the Western Roman Empire.
• B. Battle of Lake Trasimene
  The Battle of Lake Trasimene was a major Carthaginian victory in 217 BC during the Second Punic War, where Hannibal famously ambushed and annihilated a Roman army in one of history’s largest and most successful ambushes.
• C. Battle of Cannae
  The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
• D. Battle of Heraclea
  The Battle of Heraclea was a major 280 BC clash in southern Italy where King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans in one of the earliest and most famous engagements of the Pyrrhic War.
• E. Actium
  Actium is an ancient promontory and town in western Greece, near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf, best known as the site of the decisive naval Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Pharsalus
Target entity description: Pharsalus is an ancient city in central Greece best known as the site near which Julius Caesar decisively defeated Pompey in 48 BCE during the Roman civil war.

• A. Battle of Pollentia
  The Battle of Pollentia was a pivotal 402 AD clash in northern Italy where Roman forces under Stilicho confronted Alaric’s Visigoths, temporarily halting their advance into the Western Roman Empire.
• B. Battle of Lake Trasimene
  The Battle of Lake Trasimene was a major Carthaginian victory in 217 BC during the Second Punic War, where Hannibal famously ambushed and annihilated a Roman army in one of history’s largest and most successful ambushes.
• C. Battle of Cannae
  The Battle of Cannae was a major engagement in 216 BC during the Second Punic War in which Hannibal’s Carthaginian army annihilated a much larger Roman force, becoming one of history’s most famous examples of tactical encirclement.
• D. Battle of Heraclea
  The Battle of Heraclea was a major 280 BC clash in southern Italy where King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans in one of the earliest and most famous engagements of the Pyrrhic War.
• E. Actium
  Actium is an ancient promontory and town in western Greece, near the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf, best known as the site of the decisive naval Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
• F. None of above. chosen