act of a play

C29981
concept

An act of a play is a major division of the drama that groups a sequence of related scenes into a coherent structural and thematic unit within the overall performance.

All labels observed (13)

Label Occurrences
act of a play canonical 34
act of an opera 5
opera act 4

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: act of a play
Generated description
An act of a play is a major division of the drama that groups a sequence of related scenes into a coherent structural and thematic unit within the overall performance.

Instances (53)

Instance Via concept surface
Act II
surface form: Act II (Anna Christie)
Act III
surface form: Act III (Anna Christie)
Act I act of an opera