RDX
E806162
RDX is a powerful military high explosive widely used in warheads, demolition charges, and composite explosive formulations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RDX canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9525937 — 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: RDX Context triple: [Torpex, contains, RDX]
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A.
RDR
RDR is the IATA airport code for Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, United States.
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B.
RdR
RdR is the abbreviated name of the Council for German Orthography, the official body responsible for regulating and updating German spelling rules.
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C.
RIX
RIX is the three-letter IATA airport code for Riga International Airport, the main air gateway to Latvia’s capital city.
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D.
RVD
RVD is the ring name of Rob Van Dam, a high-flying, innovative professional wrestler best known for his time in ECW and WWE.
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E.
REX
REX is a radio science experiment instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft used to study the atmospheres and surfaces of planetary bodies through radio signal measurements.
- 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: RDX Target entity description: RDX is a powerful military high explosive widely used in warheads, demolition charges, and composite explosive formulations.
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A.
RDR
RDR is the IATA airport code for Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, United States.
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B.
RdR
RdR is the abbreviated name of the Council for German Orthography, the official body responsible for regulating and updating German spelling rules.
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C.
RIX
RIX is the three-letter IATA airport code for Riga International Airport, the main air gateway to Latvia’s capital city.
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D.
RVD
RVD is the ring name of Rob Van Dam, a high-flying, innovative professional wrestler best known for his time in ECW and WWE.
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E.
REX
REX is a radio science experiment instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft used to study the atmospheres and surfaces of planetary bodies through radio signal measurements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical compound
ⓘ
high explosive ⓘ nitramine explosive ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Research Department Explosive
ⓘ
Royal Demolition Explosive ⓘ |
| chemicalName |
cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine
ⓘ
hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine ⓘ |
| classifiedAs | secondary explosive ⓘ |
| componentOf |
Composition B
ⓘ
Composition C-4 ⓘ Cyclotol ⓘ PBX explosives ⓘ Torpex ⓘ |
| containsFunctionalGroup | nitramine group ⓘ |
| decomposesAt | about 170–190 °C ⓘ |
| developedBy |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developedDuring | World War II ⓘ |
| hasAppearance | white crystalline solid ⓘ |
| hasCASNumber | 121-82-4 ⓘ |
| hasDensity | about 1.80 g/cm³ ⓘ |
| hasDetonationVelocity | about 8750 m/s ⓘ |
| hasMeltingPoint | about 204 °C ⓘ |
| hasMolarMass | 222.12 g/mol ⓘ |
| hasMolecularFormula | C3H6N6O6 ⓘ |
| hasRelativeEffectivenessFactor | about 1.60 ⓘ |
| hasRingAtoms |
three carbon atoms
ⓘ
three nitrogen atoms ⓘ |
| hasRingStructure | six-membered ring ⓘ |
| initiatedBy | blasting cap ⓘ |
| insolubleIn | water ⓘ |
| morePowerfulThan | TNT ⓘ |
| producedByProcess |
Bachmann process
ⓘ
Woolwich process ⓘ |
| regulatedAs |
hazardous substance
ⓘ
military explosive ⓘ |
| sensitivity |
less sensitive than PETN
ⓘ
more sensitive than TNT ⓘ |
| solubleIn | organic solvents ⓘ |
| usedAs | military high explosive ⓘ |
| usedFor |
armor-piercing warheads
ⓘ
artillery shells ⓘ bombs ⓘ mines ⓘ shaped charges ⓘ |
| usedIn |
composite explosive formulations
ⓘ
demolition charges ⓘ plastic explosives ⓘ warheads ⓘ |
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: RDX Description of subject: RDX is a powerful military high explosive widely used in warheads, demolition charges, and composite explosive formulations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.