.308 Winchester
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The .308 Winchester is a popular rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, and military and law-enforcement applications due to its accuracy, manageable recoil, and effective range.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| .308 Winchester canonical | 9 |
| .308 Win | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11462489 — 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: .308 Winchester Context triple: [FN MAG, ammunition, .308 Winchester]
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A.
.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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B.
.223 Remington
.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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C.
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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D.
.300 AAC Blackout
.300 AAC Blackout is an intermediate rifle cartridge developed for the AR-15 platform, designed to offer improved performance in short barrels and with both supersonic and subsonic loads, particularly when used with suppressors.
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E.
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former section of the A33 road that diverted traffic around the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England, before being superseded by the M3 motorway.
- 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: .308 Winchester Target entity description: The .308 Winchester is a popular rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, and military and law-enforcement applications due to its accuracy, manageable recoil, and effective range.
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A.
.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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B.
.223 Remington
.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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C.
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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D.
.300 AAC Blackout
.300 AAC Blackout is an intermediate rifle cartridge developed for the AR-15 platform, designed to offer improved performance in short barrels and with both supersonic and subsonic loads, particularly when used with suppressors.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
.30 caliber cartridge
ⓘ
bottlenecked rifle cartridge ⓘ centerfire rifle cartridge ⓘ rifle cartridge ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
.308 Win
ⓘ
linked to:
.308 Winchester
|
| baseDiameter | 0.4709 inch ⓘ |
| bulletDiameter | 0.308 inch ⓘ |
| caseLength | 2.015 inch ⓘ |
| caseType |
bottleneck
ⓘ
rimless ⓘ |
| commercialEquivalentOf | 7.62×51mm NATO ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| effectiveRangeCategory | medium range ⓘ |
| hasCaseCapacityApprox | 56 grains of water ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
accuracy
ⓘ
effective medium-range performance ⓘ manageable recoil ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Winchester Repeating Arms Company ⓘ |
| maximumPressureCIP | 415 MPa ⓘ |
| maximumPressureSAAMI | 62000 psi ⓘ |
| neckDiameter | 0.3433 inch ⓘ |
| overallLength | 2.80 inch ⓘ |
| parentCartridge | .300 Savage ⓘ |
| popularInRegion |
Europe
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| primerType | large rifle ⓘ |
| rimDiameter | 0.4728 inch ⓘ |
| shoulderDiameter | 0.4539 inch ⓘ |
| standardCaliberClass | .30 caliber ⓘ |
| standardRiflingTwist | 1 turn in 12 inches ⓘ |
| typicalBulletWeight |
147 grain
ⓘ
150 grain ⓘ 165 grain ⓘ 168 grain ⓘ 175 grain ⓘ |
| typicalMuzzleEnergyRange | 2400–2700 ft⋅lbf ⓘ |
| typicalMuzzleVelocity150gr | 2800 ft/s ⓘ |
| typicalMuzzleVelocity168gr | 2650 ft/s ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
hunting
ⓘ
law enforcement marksman applications ⓘ military applications ⓘ sniper applications ⓘ target shooting ⓘ |
| usedForGameType |
deer
ⓘ
elk ⓘ wild boar ⓘ |
| usedIn |
bolt-action rifles
ⓘ
machine guns ⓘ semi-automatic 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: .308 Winchester Description of subject: The .308 Winchester is a popular rifle cartridge widely used for hunting, target shooting, and military and law-enforcement applications due to its accuracy, manageable recoil, and effective range.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: .308 Winchester