Bellum Civile
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Bellum Civile, commonly known as Lucan’s Pharsalia, is a Latin epic poem that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bellum Civile canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bellum Civile Context triple: [Lucan’s Pharsalia, title, Bellum Civile]
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Sullan civil war
The Sullan civil war was a conflict in the late Roman Republic in the 80s BC, in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla fought his political and military rivals to seize control of Rome and reshape its constitutional order.
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B.
The Civil Wars
The Civil Wars were an American folk and Americana duo known for their haunting harmonies, intimate songwriting, and critically acclaimed collaborations before their breakup in 2014.
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C.
Bellum Catilinae
Bellum Catilinae is a historical monograph by the Roman historian Sallust that recounts and analyzes the conspiracy of Catiline in the late Roman Republic.
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Battle of the Rubicon
The Battle of the Rubicon refers to Julius Caesar’s decisive crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 BCE, an act of insurrection that triggered the Roman civil war and symbolized the point of no return.
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E.
Gladiator War
The Gladiator War, better known as the Third Servile War, was a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic led by the gladiator Spartacus in the 1st century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bellum Civile Target entity description: Bellum Civile, commonly known as Lucan’s Pharsalia, is a Latin epic poem that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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A.
Sullan civil war
The Sullan civil war was a conflict in the late Roman Republic in the 80s BC, in which Lucius Cornelius Sulla fought his political and military rivals to seize control of Rome and reshape its constitutional order.
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B.
The Civil Wars
The Civil Wars were an American folk and Americana duo known for their haunting harmonies, intimate songwriting, and critically acclaimed collaborations before their breakup in 2014.
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C.
Bellum Catilinae
Bellum Catilinae is a historical monograph by the Roman historian Sallust that recounts and analyzes the conspiracy of Catiline in the late Roman Republic.
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D.
Battle of the Rubicon
The Battle of the Rubicon refers to Julius Caesar’s decisive crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 BCE, an act of insurrection that triggered the Roman civil war and symbolized the point of no return.
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E.
Gladiator War
The Gladiator War, better known as the Third Servile War, was a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic led by the gladiator Spartacus in the 1st century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin epic poem
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poem about civil war ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lucan’s Pharsalia
NERFINISHED
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Pharsalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateDateOfComposition | mid-1st century CE ⓘ |
| author | Lucan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict | power struggle between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Brutus
NERFINISHED
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Cato the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ Cicero NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey’s son) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus NERFINISHED ⓘ Julius Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Licinius Crassus NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sextus Pompeius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBookCount | 10 surviving books GENERATED ⓘ |
| genre | epic poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christopher Marlowe
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Dante Alighieri NERFINISHED ⓘ French neoclassical tragedy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Homeric epic
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Virgil’s Aeneid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUnfinished | true ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Neronian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Silver Age of Latin literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Roman epic tradition after Virgil ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
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collapse of the Roman Republic ⓘ |
| metre | dactylic hexameter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
absence of traditional epic gods as active characters
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frequent digressions and speeches ⓘ highly rhetorical style ⓘ stoic philosophical elements ⓘ strongly anti-Caesarian tone ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksExtant | 10 ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksPlanned | 12 ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Bellum Civile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalOrientation | Stoicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Africa
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Pharsalus NERFINISHED ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ Thessaly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
civil war as self-destruction of Rome
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fate and human agency ⓘ liberty versus tyranny ⓘ moral decline of Rome ⓘ |
| timeOfComposition | reign of Nero ⓘ |
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Subject: Bellum Civile Description of subject: Bellum Civile, commonly known as Lucan’s Pharsalia, is a Latin epic poem that dramatically recounts the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great.
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