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
Paleogene geologic period
Manet’s late works artistic period
Hōei era Japanese era
Nanjing, Jiangsu, Qing dynasty historical period of a city
Jacksonian era historical era
Exile of the Stuart royal family in the Dutch Republic
Reign of Henry II of France
Anschluss-era Austria
Pre-Columbian North America
Greater Afghanistan (cultural concept)
surface form: Greater Afghanistan
historical concept
Ottoman classical period
Ominous Decade
Ordovician Period geological period
Roman towns historical concept
NSDAP in the 1920s historical period of a political party
German-occupied Hungary
Years of Lead in Morocco
Interwar architecture historical period in architecture
Central Asian empires historical concept
Coptic Egypt
Great Vowel Shift (late phase) stage of the Great Vowel Shift
Yōrō era Japanese era
Taihō Japanese era
Devonian Period geological period
Kamakura period
High and Late Middle Ages
Martyrs of the country under the Mobutu regime historical concept
Age of Religious Wars
Taft Court historical court era
Ice Age geological period
Medieval Central Europe historical period in Europe
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site Gilded Age estate
Golden Age of Broadway (mature phase)
Dynasty 0 historical concept
Tenpyō-kanpō Japanese era
Jōmon period
Pyramid Age historical era
Years of Lead
Taika era Japanese era
Bank Restriction Period
Yōrō Japanese era
Vladimir Nabokov’s American years literary period
Patriot era in the Dutch Republic
Permian Period geological period
Sardinia (Spanish period)
Louis XVI period artistic period
Polonnaruwa period
Bulgarian National Revival
Neolithic Britain prehistoric period
Portuguese society after empire