Federal Cartridge Company
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Federal Cartridge Company is a prominent American manufacturer of ammunition and related shooting products for sporting, law enforcement, and military markets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Federal Cartridge Company canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7722819 — 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: Federal Cartridge Company Context triple: [Alliant Techsystems, acquired, Federal Cartridge Company]
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A.
Auto-Ordnance Company
Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
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B.
Colt's Manufacturing Company
Colt's Manufacturing Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for iconic revolvers and pistols that have significantly influenced military, law enforcement, and civilian small arms worldwide.
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C.
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
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D.
Maxim Gun Company
Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
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E.
Springfield Armory
Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
- 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: Federal Cartridge Company Target entity description: Federal Cartridge Company is a prominent American manufacturer of ammunition and related shooting products for sporting, law enforcement, and military markets.
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A.
Auto-Ordnance Company
Auto-Ordnance Company is an American firearms manufacturer best known for developing and producing the iconic Thompson submachine gun used extensively in World War II and by law enforcement and criminals during the early 20th century.
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B.
Colt's Manufacturing Company
Colt's Manufacturing Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for iconic revolvers and pistols that have significantly influenced military, law enforcement, and civilian small arms worldwide.
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C.
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Winchester Repeating Arms Company is a historic American firearms manufacturer renowned for its lever-action rifles and other iconic military and sporting arms.
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D.
Maxim Gun Company
Maxim Gun Company was the arms manufacturer founded by inventor Hiram Maxim to produce and market the Maxim machine gun, one of the first fully automatic weapons.
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E.
Springfield Armory
Springfield Armory was a historic United States firearms manufacturing and military small arms research facility in Springfield, Massachusetts, that played a central role in American arms production from the Revolutionary War through the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ammunition manufacturer
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company ⓘ firearms industry company ⓘ |
| brand |
American Eagle
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Black Cloud ⓘ Federal Premium ⓘ Fusion ⓘ Gold Medal ⓘ HST ⓘ Hydra-Shok ⓘ Power-Shok ⓘ Syntech ⓘ Top Gun ⓘ Vital-Shok ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| formerParentOrganization | Alliant Techsystems ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Charles L. Horn ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiaryBrand | CCI (co-branded under Vista Outdoor) ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Anoka, Minnesota ⓘ |
| industry |
ammunition
ⓘ
shooting sports ⓘ |
| market |
law enforcement
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military ⓘ sporting ⓘ |
| notableFor |
law enforcement duty ammunition
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premium hunting ammunition ⓘ wide range of shotshell loads ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Vista Outdoor ⓘ |
| product |
centerfire ammunition
ⓘ
handgun ammunition ⓘ law enforcement ammunition ⓘ military ammunition ⓘ reloading components ⓘ rifle ammunition ⓘ rimfire ammunition ⓘ shotgun shells ⓘ shotshell components ⓘ |
| serves |
competitive shooters
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hunters ⓘ law enforcement agencies ⓘ military customers ⓘ |
| state | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Federal Cartridge Company Description of subject: Federal Cartridge Company is a prominent American manufacturer of ammunition and related shooting products for sporting, law enforcement, and military markets.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.