Roman sack of Corinth
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The Roman sack of Corinth in 146 BCE was the brutal destruction and looting of the wealthy Greek city by Roman forces, marking a decisive moment in Rome’s domination of Greece.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roman sack of Corinth canonical | 2 |
| Sack of Corinth (146 BCE) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21576250 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roman sack of Corinth Context triple: [Battle of Corinth (146 BCE), followedBy, Roman sack of Corinth]
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Roman conquest of Akragas
The Roman conquest of Akragas was a key episode of the First Punic War in 262–261 BC, when Roman forces captured the important Carthaginian-held city of Akragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily, marking a major step in Rome’s expansion into the western Mediterranean.
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Roman conquest of Sicily
The Roman conquest of Sicily was a series of military campaigns during the First Punic War through which Rome wrested control of the island from Carthage, making it Rome’s first province outside the Italian peninsula.
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Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese
The Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese was the early 13th-century occupation and feudal colonization of southern Greece by Western European crusaders following the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
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Sack of Rome by the Gauls
The Sack of Rome by the Gauls was a pivotal 390 BC invasion in which Gallic tribes captured and plundered Rome, leaving a lasting trauma on the Roman Republic and shaping its subsequent military and political development.
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Siege of Corioli
The Siege of Corioli was an early 5th-century BC Roman military action against the Volscian city of Corioli, famed as the campaign in which the legendary general Gaius Marcius earned the cognomen “Coriolanus.”
- 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: Roman sack of Corinth Target entity description: The Roman sack of Corinth in 146 BCE was the brutal destruction and looting of the wealthy Greek city by Roman forces, marking a decisive moment in Rome’s domination of Greece.
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A.
Roman conquest of Akragas
The Roman conquest of Akragas was a key episode of the First Punic War in 262–261 BC, when Roman forces captured the important Carthaginian-held city of Akragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily, marking a major step in Rome’s expansion into the western Mediterranean.
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B.
Roman conquest of Sicily
The Roman conquest of Sicily was a series of military campaigns during the First Punic War through which Rome wrested control of the island from Carthage, making it Rome’s first province outside the Italian peninsula.
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C.
Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese
The Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese was the early 13th-century occupation and feudal colonization of southern Greece by Western European crusaders following the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
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D.
Sack of Rome by the Gauls
The Sack of Rome by the Gauls was a pivotal 390 BC invasion in which Gallic tribes captured and plundered Rome, leaving a lasting trauma on the Roman Republic and shaping its subsequent military and political development.
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E.
Siege of Corioli
The Siege of Corioli was an early 5th-century BC Roman military action against the Volscian city of Corioli, famed as the campaign in which the legendary general Gaius Marcius earned the cognomen “Coriolanus.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roman sack of Corinth