fairy tale
C12537
concept
A fairy tale is a short, traditional story featuring magical events, fantastical creatures, and moral lessons, often intended for children.
All labels observed (24)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| fairy tale canonical | 42 |
| German fairy tale | 12 |
| French fairy tale | 9 |
| European fairy tale | 5 |
| Grimms' Fairy Tale | 3 |
| fairyTale | 3 |
| European folk tale | 2 |
| German folktale | 2 |
| folkTale | 2 |
| symphonic fairy tale | 2 |
| Bengali fairy-tale novella | 1 |
| Cinderella-type tale | 1 |
| English fairy tale | 1 |
| English folk tale | 1 |
| European folk story | 1 |
| French literary fairy tale | 1 |
| FrenchFairyTale | 1 |
| Middle Eastern folk tale | 1 |
| South Asian folklore narrative | 1 |
| fairy-tale play | 1 |
| fairy-tale poem | 1 |
| fantastical tale | 1 |
| modern fairy tale | 1 |
| retelling of Bluebeard | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: fairy tale
Generated description
A fairy tale is a short, traditional story featuring magical events, fantastical creatures, and moral lessons, often intended for children.
Instances (76)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| The Juniper Tree | German fairy tale |
| The Six Swans | German fairy tale |
| The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack | German folktale |
| The Girl Without Hands | German fairy tale |
| The Three Little Men in the Wood | German fairy tale |
| The Twelve Brothers | German fairy tale |
| The Nixie of the Mill-Pond | German fairy tale |
| The Singing Bone | — |
| The Star Money | — |
| The Old Man and His Grandson | — |
| The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs | German fairy tale |
| The Queen Bee | — |
| The Three Spinners | German fairy tale |
| Twelve Months | fairy-tale play |
| Sleeping Beauty legend | European fairy tale |
| The Tale of the Two Brothers | — |
| Henny Penny | European folk tale |
| Mukha-Tsokotukha | fairy-tale poem |
| Krokodil | — |
| The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince | — |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | — |
| Khirer Putul | Bengali fairy-tale novella |
| Sleeping Beauty | — |
| The Ebony Horse | — |
| Beauty and the Beast (traditional fairy tale) | — |
| Dick Whittington and His Cat | English folk tale |