diff --git a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/dataflow/ExternalFlow.qll b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/dataflow/ExternalFlow.qll
index 0bf707fd6e1..1cf2ad1699f 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/dataflow/ExternalFlow.qll
+++ b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/dataflow/ExternalFlow.qll
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ private predicate summaryModel0(
 }
 
 /**
- * Holds if `input` is `input0`, but with all occurences of `@` replaced
+ * Holds if `input` is `input0`, but with all occurrences of `@` replaced
  * by `n` repetitions of `*` (and similarly for `output` and `output0`).
  */
 bindingset[input0, output0, n]
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ private predicate hasClassAndName(Class classWithMethod, Function method, string
 }
 
 /**
- * Holds if `nameClass` is in namespace `namespace` and has
+ * Holds if `namedClass` is in namespace `namespace` and has
  * name `type` (excluding any template parameters).
  */
 bindingset[type, namespace]
diff --git a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/models/implementations/StdContainer.qll b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/models/implementations/StdContainer.qll
index 63605a188cf..bf9e05991b4 100644
--- a/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/models/implementations/StdContainer.qll
+++ b/cpp/ql/lib/semmle/code/cpp/models/implementations/StdContainer.qll
@@ -55,37 +55,6 @@ private class Vector extends StdSequenceContainer {
   Vector() { this.hasQualifiedName(["std", "bsl"], "vector") }
 }
 
-/**
- * Additional model for standard container constructors that reference the
- * value type of the container (that is, the `T` in `std::vector<T>`).  For
- * example the fill constructor:
- * ```
- * std::vector<std::string> v(100, potentially_tainted_string);
- * ```
- */
-private class StdSequenceContainerConstructor extends Constructor {
-  StdSequenceContainerConstructor() {
-    this.getDeclaringType() instanceof Vector or
-    this.getDeclaringType() instanceof Deque or
-    this.getDeclaringType() instanceof List or
-    this.getDeclaringType() instanceof ForwardList
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets the index of a parameter to this function that is a reference to the
-   * value type of the container.
-   */
-  int getAValueTypeParameterIndex() {
-    this.getParameter(result).getUnspecifiedType().(ReferenceType).getBaseType() =
-      this.getDeclaringType().getTemplateArgument(0).(Type).getUnspecifiedType() // i.e. the `T` of this `std::vector<T>`
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Gets the index of a parameter to this function that is an iterator.
-   */
-  int getAnIteratorParameterIndex() { this.getParameter(result).getType() instanceof Iterator }
-}
-
 /**
  * The standard container functions `push_back` and `push_front`.
  */