political speech
C362
concept
A political speech is a formal oral presentation delivered by a public figure or candidate to persuade, inform, or mobilize an audience about political ideas, policies, or actions.
All labels observed (38)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| political speech canonical | 96 |
| political text | 20 |
| oratory | 10 |
| nationalist speech | 6 |
| presidential address | 6 |
| historical speech | 5 |
| Cold War speech | 4 |
| patriotic speech | 4 |
| political oration | 4 |
| public speech | 4 |
| televised address | 4 |
| campaign speech | 3 |
| inaugural address | 3 |
| political address | 3 |
| political appeal | 3 |
| televised speech | 3 |
| climate change speech | 2 |
| independence speech | 2 |
| parliamentary speech | 2 |
| policy speech | 2 |
| political discourse | 2 |
| political orations | 2 |
| revolutionary speech | 2 |
| Democratic National Convention speech | 1 |
| anti‑war speech | 1 |
| civil rights speech | 1 |
| controversial speech | 1 |
| formal speech | 1 |
| parliamentary address | 1 |
| political communication | 1 |
| political oratory | 1 |
| political sermon | 1 |
| presidential inaugural address | 1 |
| propaganda discourse | 1 |
| protest speech | 1 |
| segregationist speech | 1 |
| victory speech | 1 |
| wartime propaganda speech | 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: political speech
Generated description
A political speech is a formal oral presentation delivered by a public figure or candidate to persuade, inform, or mobilize an audience about political ideas, policies, or actions.
Instances (168)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Cicero’s Philippics | political oratory |
| Oratorio del Crocifisso | oratory |
| On Guerrilla Warfare | political text |
| Philippics (Demosthenes) | political orations |
| Περὶ τοῦ στεφάνου | political oration |
|
"Atoms for Peace" speech by Dwight D. Eisenhower
surface form:
Atoms for Peace speech
|
— |
| Richard Nixon’s 1952 Checkers speech | — |
|
"Checkers speech"
surface form:
Checkers speech
|
— |
| Secret Speech of 1956 | — |
| On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences | — |
| Cold War rhetoric | propaganda discourse |
| How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-normal in the British School System | political text |
| Appeal of 18 June | — |
| Address to the Slaves of the United States of America | — |
| Second Inaugural Address | presidential inaugural address |
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oratory of the Holy Cross at the Lateran Baptistery
surface form:
Oratory of the Holy Cross at the Lateran Baptistery
|
oratory |
| oratory of Saint John the Evangelist at the Lateran Baptistery | oratory |
| Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union speech | — |