Caliber

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://artifacts.apis.io/gunspec-io/json-schema/gunspec-io-caliber-schema.json",
  "title": "Caliber",
  "x-generated": "2026-10-30",
  "x-method": "derived",
  "x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
  "x-source": "openapi/gunspec-io-openapi.json#/components/schemas/Caliber",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "URL-safe slug identifying the cartridge, e.g. `9x19mm-parabellum`."
    },
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Display name, as the maker writes it."
    },
    "aliases": {
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ],
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Other names this cartridge is sold or written as."
    },
    "natoDesignation": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "NATO designation where the cartridge has one, e.g. `9mm NATO`. Null otherwise."
    },
    "bulletDiameterMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Bullet diameter in millimetres."
    },
    "neckDiameterMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Case neck outside diameter in millimetres."
    },
    "shoulderDiameterMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Bottleneck cases only."
    },
    "baseDiameterMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Case base diameter in millimetres, ahead of the extractor groove."
    },
    "rimDiameterMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Rim diameter in millimetres."
    },
    "rimThicknessMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Rim thickness in millimetres."
    },
    "caseLengthMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Case length in millimetres."
    },
    "overallLengthMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Overall length in millimetres, stock extended where it folds or collapses."
    },
    "bulletLengthMm": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Typical projectile length."
    },
    "maxPressureMpa": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Maximum average pressure in megapascals, as the standards body specifies it."
    },
    "maxPressurePsi": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The same pressure in pounds per square inch, converted."
    },
    "typicalBulletWeightG": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Representative bullet weight in grams. Divide by 0.0648 for grains."
    },
    "typicalMuzzleVelocityMps": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Representative muzzle velocity in metres per second."
    },
    "typicalMuzzleEnergyJ": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Representative muzzle energy in joules."
    },
    "primerType": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Primer size and type, e.g. `small_pistol`, `large_rifle`, `rimfire`."
    },
    "cartridgeType": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Head type: `rimmed`, `rimless`, `semi_rimmed`, `rebated_rim`, `belted`, plus historical values like `cap_and_ball`. **Not the broad class.** The registry said `pistol`/`rifle`/`shotgun` until the column was read, and it holds neither."
    },
    "caseShape": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "straight",
        "tapered",
        "bottleneck",
        "none",
        null
      ],
      "description": "Case profile: `straight`, `bottleneck`, `tapered`, `belted`."
    },
    "caseMaterial": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "brass",
        "nickel_brass",
        "steel",
        "lacquered_steel",
        "aluminium",
        "polymer",
        "paper",
        "caseless",
        "none",
        null
      ],
      "description": "What the case is made of: `brass`, `steel`, `aluminium`, `polymer`."
    },
    "projectileKind": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "bullet",
        "none",
        "shot",
        "slug",
        "round_ball",
        "flechette",
        "dart",
        "pellet",
        "rocket",
        "grenade",
        "signal",
        null
      ],
      "description": "`none` is a blank."
    },
    "bulletProfile": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "spitzer",
        "spitzer_boat_tail",
        "round_nose",
        "flat_nose",
        "wadcutter",
        "semi_wadcutter",
        "hollow_point",
        "truncated_cone",
        "round_ball",
        null
      ],
      "description": "Bullet shape: `fmj`, `hollow_point`, `soft_point`, `spitzer`, `round_nose`."
    },
    "closure": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "bullet",
        "star_crimp",
        "rosette_crimp",
        "roll_crimp",
        "fold_crimp",
        "wad",
        "paper",
        "none",
        null
      ],
      "description": "What seals the case mouth; a blank is a star crimp."
    },
    "markingColor": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "black",
        "white",
        "red",
        "orange",
        "yellow",
        "green",
        "blue",
        "purple",
        "pink",
        "brown",
        "grey",
        "silver",
        "gold",
        null
      ],
      "description": "Paint that identifies the load: crimp lacquer on a blank, tip colour on a military round."
    },
    "markingMeaning": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "What that colour signifies, where the marking is a standard one."
    },
    "parentCartridgeId": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "The cartridge this one was derived from, or null. A wildcat and its parent case, for example."
    },
    "yearIntroduced": {
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Year it entered production or service. Null where the date is disputed or unknown."
    },
    "designer": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Person or team credited with the design, where it is known."
    },
    "specSource": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Page the dimensions were read from."
    },
    "specStandard": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "enum": [
        "saami",
        "cip",
        "nato",
        "proprietary",
        "none",
        null
      ],
      "description": "The standards body whose figures these are (`SAAMI`, `CIP`), where the source names one."
    },
    "dataConfidence": {
      "type": [
        "number",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "How completely the record is specified and how well it is sourced, 0 to 1. A record-level completeness and provenance measure, **not** a per-field probability of correctness. Use it to rank and triage; use `sources` to verify an individual number."
    },
    "verifiedAt": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "When a person last checked this record against its source. Null means nobody has: the row is model knowledge until then."
    },
    "verifiedFields": {
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ],
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "The fields the source stated. The same list is in `provenance.verifiedFields`."
    },
    "createdAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When the record was first added, `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS` in UTC."
    },
    "updatedAt": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "When a field we serve last changed. Maintained by the database rather than by whatever wrote the row, so it moves for a corrected specification and does not move for a re-run of the importer."
    },
    "version": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "description": "Opaque fingerprint of this record. It changes when and only when a field we serve changes, so a client holding the same value already has the record and need not fetch it. Equality is the only supported operation: do not parse it, and do not assume how it is computed. Null means the record has not been written since versioning began, not that it is unchanged."
    },
    "provenance": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/Provenance"
    }
  },
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      "type": "object",
      "description": "Where a record's figures came from and how far they have been checked, in one place. `sources` are the pages consulted; check a specific figure against those. `sourceKinds` says what each page is and `bestSourceKind` the strongest of them, on the hierarchy `SourceKind` defines: a maker or standards-body page is evidence for a figure, a retailer or forum page is evidence the item exists. `dataConfidence` is the 0 to 1 score set from what was actually sourced and never raised by hand. `verifiedAt` and `verifiedFields` say when a source was last read against the record and which fields it stated; null means the row is still seed knowledge. `updatedAt` and `version` are the same cache signals the record carries at the top level.",
      "properties": {
        "sources": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": "The pages consulted when the record was compiled, as an array. Check a specific figure against these rather than against `dataConfidence`."
        },
        "sourceKinds": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "url": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Absolute, directly fetchable URL."
              },
              "kind": {
                "$ref": "#/$defs/SourceKind"
              },
              "archivedFrom": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "The original address when `url` is a Wayback Machine capture of it. A cited page that no longer answers is replaced by its last capture that answered 200, so the citation still shows what its author read; `kind` is the original page's."
              },
              "rank": {
                "type": "integer",
                "description": "The kind's place in the source hierarchy: 0 is the maker, the strongest; higher is weaker."
              },
              "tier": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "authority",
                  "classified",
                  "unclassified"
                ],
                "description": "Where the site stands in the source registry (`/v1/data/sources`): an authority (the maker, a standards body, a government), a classified site, or one not yet classed."
              },
              "basis": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "declared",
                  "maker",
                  "rule",
                  "unclassified"
                ],
                "description": "What the class rests on: classed by a person, a catalogued maker's own site, a .gov or .mil domain, or nothing yet."
              },
              "evidence": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "The words the site was classed on, where a person recorded them."
              }
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              "tier",
              "basis",
              "evidence"
            ]
          },
          "description": "What each cited page is, in `sources` order, on the `SourceKind` hierarchy. A host not in the source map is `other`, never guessed."
        },
        "bestSourceKind": {
          "anyOf": [
            {
              "$ref": "#/$defs/SourceKind"
            },
            {
              "type": "null"
            }
          ],
          "description": "The strongest kind among the citations, or null when nothing is cited. `manufacturer` or `standards_body` means a figure can be checked against an authority; `retailer` or `community` alone means the record is still supported by copies of copies."
        },
        "makerSource": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ],
          "description": "The first cited page on the record's own manufacturer's website, or null when it cites none. A page on another maker's site does not count. Cited from the maker is not the same as checked against it: `verifiedFields` names the figures that were read against a source."
        },
        "evidence": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": [
            "verified",
            "maker",
            "authority",
            "secondary",
            "none"
          ],
          "description": "How far the record's figures are backed, strongest first, for a badge: `verified` when at least one figure was read against a source (`verifiedFields`), `maker` when it cites a page on its own manufacturer's site (`makerSource`), `authority` when it cites a maker, standards body or government page, `secondary` when it cites only press, retailers, references or forums, `none` when it cites nothing. Derived from the fields beside it."
        },
        "checks": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "The checks the record has been through, on a single record's response only: every task the data agent (Redback) or a person was given about it, what each proposed, the pages it read, and whether a person accepted it. Nothing an agent proposes reaches the record until a person accepts it, so this is the trail behind `verifiedFields`. Who reviewed is not published; an agent's instance name is.",
          "properties": {
            "raised": {
              "type": "integer",
              "description": "Every task ever raised on the record, answered or not."
            },
            "open": {
              "type": "integer",
              "description": "Tasks still waiting to be worked."
            },
            "history": {
              "type": "array",
              "description": "The latest twenty, newest first.",
              "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "task": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The task id, stable across runs; the same id `/v1/data/tasks/{taskKey}` answers for."
                  },
                  "number": {
                    "type": [
                      "integer",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "The task's number; `/v1/data/tasks/{number}` loads it as its key does."
                  },
                  "check": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "The check that raised it, where one did."
                  },
                  "kind": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "`verify` reads the record against its maker's page, `gap` researches an empty field, `contradiction` judges fields that disagree, `vocabulary` a value outside a list."
                  },
                  "agent": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "`redback` when the agent worked it, `staff` when a person did, null when nobody has."
                  },
                  "worker": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "The agent instance that worked it; null for a person."
                  },
                  "status": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "`resolved` (a proposal was filed), `unverifiable` (nothing could be established; retried after a cooldown), `not_a_fault`, or open."
                  },
                  "decidedAt": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "When the task was answered; null while it is open."
                  },
                  "proposed": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "What it proposed, in its own words; null while it is open."
                  },
                  "fields": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "description": "Per-field completeness, keyed by column name."
                  },
                  "sources": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "description": "The pages it read and quoted."
                  },
                  "review": {
                    "type": [
                      "object",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "properties": {
                      "decision": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "enum": [
                          "accepted",
                          "rejected"
                        ],
                        "description": "Whether a person accepted the proposal."
                      },
                      "at": {
                        "type": [
                          "string",
                          "null"
                        ],
                        "description": "When they decided."
                      }
                    },
                    "description": "A person's decision on the proposal; null until reviewed."
                  },
                  "finding": {
                    "type": [
                      "object",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "What the check found, where a check raised the task: its own line for this record and the figures it measured, so a reader sees how the value breaks the method. The same the public task board serves with `include=research`.",
                    "properties": {
                      "why": {
                        "type": [
                          "string",
                          "null"
                        ],
                        "description": "The check's line for this record."
                      },
                      "evidence": {
                        "type": [
                          "object",
                          "null"
                        ],
                        "additionalProperties": true,
                        "description": "The figures the check measured."
                      }
                    },
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                      "why",
                      "evidence"
                    ]
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                  "number",
                  "check",
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                  "agent",
                  "worker",
                  "status",
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                  "proposed",
                  "fields",
                  "sources",
                  "review",
                  "finding"
                ]
              }
            }
          },
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            "open",
            "history"
          ]
        },
        "dataConfidence": {
          "type": [
            "number",
            "null"
          ],
          "description": "The 0 to 1 score set from what was actually sourced, never raised by hand. See the confidence bands in the docs."
        },
        "verifiedAt": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ],
          "description": "When a source was last read against this record. Null means the row is still seed knowledge."
        },
        "verifiedFields": {
          "type": [
            "array",
            "null"
          ],
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": "Which fields the source stated, as an array. Everything else on a verified row is still unverified. Null where no source has been read."
        },
        "specSource": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ],
          "description": "Cartridges only: the page the drawing figures were taken from. Null on every other kind of record."
        },
        "updatedAt": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "When a served column last changed; the same value the record carries at the top level."
        },
        "version": {
          "type": [
            "string",
            "null"
          ],
          "description": "The record's content version, equal to the top-level `version`; equal versions mean equal data."
        }
      },
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        "sourceKinds",
        "bestSourceKind",
        "makerSource",
        "evidence",
        "dataConfidence",
        "verifiedAt",
        "verifiedFields",
        "specSource",
        "updatedAt",
        "version"
      ]
    },
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        "manufacturer",
        "standards_body",
        "government",
        "peer_reviewed",
        "reference",
        "aggregator",
        "press",
        "retailer",
        "community",
        "other"
      ],
      "description": "What kind of page a cited source is, strongest first: the maker's own page, a standards body (SAAMI, C.I.P.), a government or military document, an independent reference work, a specification aggregator, the press, a retailer or auction listing, a community site, or an unclassified page. Weigh a figure by the best kind behind it, never by how many pages were cited."
    }
  }
}