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
Edo period
Anno Mundi calendar era
Two Lands of Egypt historical concept
Spanish colonization of Equatorial Guinea colonial period
Reconstruction era
Silver Age of Latin literature literary era
Florham estate Gilded Age estate
Second Spanish Republic historical period of Spain
Cretaceous geological period
Roman Greece
The Terror
Saite artistic revival
Saite political renaissance
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Viking Age
Carolingian Renaissance
Avignon Papacy
Holocene geological epoch
Islamic Golden Age
Locarno Era
Washington Naval Conference period
Consulate
Arab Cold War
Late Antiquity
Reign of Terror
Napoleonic era
Sangkum era
High Middle Ages
Warlord Era
the color line historical concept
Middle Byzantine period
post-war Britain
Golden Age of Hindi cinema
Second Cold War
States Reorganisation era of India
Late Middle Ages
Venetian Renaissance cultural period
Restoration period in Europe
Classic period
surface form: Classic period (Maya civilization)
Golden Age of Porn
Japanese occupation of Guam
Kennedy administration historical government period
French Regency (1715–1723)
Archaic period
surface form: Archaic period in Aridoamerica
prehistoric period
Year of Sorrow
Hundred Days
surface form: Hundred Days (FDR)
Formative period of Mesoamerica archaeological period
Reign of Louis XIV
Disney Renaissance period in film history
Nayak period