.223 Remington
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.223 Remington is a popular small-caliber, high-velocity rifle cartridge widely used for sporting, hunting, and varmint shooting, and closely associated with modern semi-automatic rifles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| .223 Remington canonical | 16 |
| .223 Rem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8130980 — 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: .223 Remington Context triple: [AR-15 pattern rifles, hasTypicalCaliber, .223 Remington]
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A.
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO is a standard intermediate rifle cartridge widely used by NATO forces and many militaries worldwide in assault rifles and light machine guns.
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B.
.30-06 Springfield
The .30-06 Springfield is a powerful and historically significant American rifle cartridge widely used in both military service and civilian hunting and target shooting throughout the 20th century.
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C.
.38 Special
.38 Special is a widely used revolver cartridge known for its manageable recoil and long-standing popularity in law enforcement and civilian self-defense.
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D.
A33 Winchester bypass
The A33 Winchester bypass was a former section of the A33 road that diverted traffic around the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England, before being superseded by the M3 motorway.
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E.
M16 rifle
The M16 rifle is a lightweight, 5.56×45mm NATO, gas-operated assault rifle that has been a standard-issue infantry weapon for the U.S. military and many allied forces since the Vietnam War era.
- 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: .223 Remington Target entity description: .223 Remington is a popular small-caliber, high-velocity rifle cartridge widely used for sporting, hunting, and varmint shooting, and closely associated with modern semi-automatic rifles.
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A.
5.56×45mm NATO
The 5.56×45mm NATO is a standard intermediate rifle cartridge widely used by NATO forces and many militaries worldwide in assault rifles and light machine guns.
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B.
.30-06 Springfield
The .30-06 Springfield is a powerful and historically significant American rifle cartridge widely used in both military service and civilian hunting and target shooting throughout the 20th century.
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C.
.38 Special
.38 Special is a widely used revolver cartridge known for its manageable recoil and long-standing popularity in law enforcement and civilian self-defense.
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D.
A33 Winchester bypass
The A33 Winchester bypass was a former section of the A33 road that diverted traffic around the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England, before being superseded by the M3 motorway.
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E.
M16 rifle
The M16 rifle is a lightweight, 5.56×45mm NATO, gas-operated assault rifle that has been a standard-issue infantry weapon for the U.S. military and many allied forces since the Vietnam War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bottlenecked cartridge
ⓘ
centerfire cartridge ⓘ rifle cartridge ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
.223 Rem
ⓘ
linked to:
.223 Remington
|
| associatedWith |
civilian sporting rifles
ⓘ
law enforcement patrol rifles ⓘ modern sporting rifles ⓘ |
| baseDiameter | 0.376 inch ⓘ |
| bulletDiameter | 0.224 inch ⓘ |
| caliber | .22 caliber ⓘ |
| caseLength | 1.76 inch ⓘ |
| caseType |
bottleneck
ⓘ
rimless ⓘ |
| chamberPressureStandardizedBy | SAAMI ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo | 5.56×45mm NATO ⓘ |
| commercialDesignation | .223 Remington ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| designedFor | rifles ⓘ |
| headspacesOn | shoulder ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Remington Arms ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| neckDiameter | 0.253 inch ⓘ |
| notIdenticalTo | 5.56×45mm NATO ⓘ |
| overallLength | 2.26 inch ⓘ |
| parentCartridge | .222 Remington ⓘ |
| popularForGameType |
small deer (where legal)
ⓘ
small predators ⓘ varmints ⓘ |
| powderType | smokeless powder ⓘ |
| primerType | small rifle primer ⓘ |
| rimDiameter | 0.378 inch ⓘ |
| shoulderDiameter | 0.354 inch ⓘ |
| standardTwistRateCommon | 1:9 inches ⓘ |
| typicalBulletWeightRange | 40–77 grains ⓘ |
| typicalMuzzleEnergyRange | 1100–1300 ft⋅lbf ⓘ |
| typicalMuzzleVelocityRange | 2700–3300 ft/s ⓘ |
| typicalTwistRateRange | 1:7 to 1:12 inches ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
hunting
ⓘ
plinking ⓘ sporting ⓘ target shooting ⓘ varmint shooting ⓘ |
| usedFor |
3-gun competition
ⓘ
benchrest-style accuracy shooting ⓘ practical rifle competition ⓘ |
| usedIn |
AR-15 style rifles
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linked to:
AR-15 pattern rifles
bolt-action rifles ⓘ semi-automatic rifles ⓘ varmint rifles ⓘ |
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: .223 Remington Description of subject: .223 Remington is a popular small-caliber, high-velocity rifle cartridge widely used for sporting, hunting, and varmint shooting, and closely associated with modern semi-automatic rifles.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Ruger Mini-14 rifle
subject linked to:
Blazer ammunition brand
linked to: .223 Remington
subject linked to:
SL8 (civilian variant)
subject linked to:
SL8 (civilian variant)