Battle of Asculum

Target entity: Battle of Asculum
Context triple: [Pyrrhic War, hasBattle, Battle of Asculum]

• A. Battle of Corfinium
  The Battle of Corfinium was an early engagement in 49 BC during Julius Caesar’s civil war in which Caesar besieged and captured the city of Corfinium, securing a key strategic and psychological advantage over the senatorial forces.
• B. Battle of Delium
  The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
• C. 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.
• D. Battle of Lake Regillus
  The Battle of Lake Regillus was a legendary early 5th-century BC clash between the Roman Republic and the Latin forces of the exiled king Tarquinius Superbus, famed for the supposed divine intervention of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on Rome’s behalf.
• E. Battle of Ecnomus
  The Battle of Ecnomus was a major naval engagement of the First Punic War in 256 BC, often considered one of the largest naval battles of antiquity, in which Rome decisively defeated Carthage off the southern coast of Sicily.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Battle of Asculum
Target entity description: The Battle of Asculum was a major engagement in 279 BC in which King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans at heavy cost, giving rise to the term “Pyrrhic victory.”

• A. Battle of Corfinium
  The Battle of Corfinium was an early engagement in 49 BC during Julius Caesar’s civil war in which Caesar besieged and captured the city of Corfinium, securing a key strategic and psychological advantage over the senatorial forces.
• B. Battle of Delium
  The Battle of Delium was a significant engagement of the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC, where Boeotian forces decisively defeated the Athenians near the sanctuary of Apollo at Delium.
• C. 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.
• D. Battle of Lake Regillus
  The Battle of Lake Regillus was a legendary early 5th-century BC clash between the Roman Republic and the Latin forces of the exiled king Tarquinius Superbus, famed for the supposed divine intervention of the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on Rome’s behalf.
• E. Battle of Ecnomus
  The Battle of Ecnomus was a major naval engagement of the First Punic War in 256 BC, often considered one of the largest naval battles of antiquity, in which Rome decisively defeated Carthage off the southern coast of Sicily.
• F. None of above. chosen