historical period

C138
concept

A historical period is a span of time characterized by distinct social, political, cultural, or technological conditions that differentiate it from other eras in history.

All labels observed (163)

Label Occurrences
historical period canonical 703
historical era 69
historical concept 57

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: historical period
Generated description
A historical period is a span of time characterized by distinct social, political, cultural, or technological conditions that differentiate it from other eras in history.

Instances (1,090)

Instance Via concept surface
Hellenistic mathematics historical period of mathematics
Seljuk Rum period
American Revolutionary era historical era
Golden Age of Korean cinema historical period in film
Vincent van Gogh Nuenen period artistic period
Van Gogh’s Nuenen paintings artistic period
Dual System era of New York City rapid transit
Yuanzhen historical era
Kofun period
Italian Enlightenment
Deutsche Aufklärung
Renaissance Italy
Pala period
Swinging London
Difaqane
Lifaqane
Regal period of Rome
Free State of Prussia era
Ottoman occupation of eastern Anatolia
Presidency of Grover Cleveland
Republican era of Chile
Stadtholderless Periods
Alaska territorial era
Original Six era
Age of Greatness of Sweden historical era
Scythian Iron Age
British Java
British administration of Java
Showa era
surface form: Shōwa era
historical era
Company rule in India
Cold War in Norway
The Lord Chelmsford as Viceroy of India
British colonization of Sumatra colonial period
Golden Age of newspaper adventure strips
Enlightenment philosophy
Byzantine Empire under John VI Kantakouzenos
United States (advisory role)
Neo-Europes historical concept
Sadat era
Biennio Rosso
Saadian period
Western Zhou period
Greco-Roman period
Age of Settlement
Kushite period
Muromachi period
Medieval Scotland
Mongol-ruled China
Early Byzantine period
Sengoku period