war

C441
concept

War is a large-scale, organized conflict between groups—typically nations or factions—characterized by sustained violence, strategic objectives, and significant political, social, and human consequences.

All labels observed (54)

Label Occurrences
war canonical 723
armed conflict 326
civil war 244

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: war
Generated description
War is a large-scale, organized conflict between groups—typically nations or factions—characterized by sustained violence, strategic objectives, and significant political, social, and human consequences.

Instances (1,463)

Instance Via concept surface
Sacred Wars series of wars
Hualapai people
surface form: Hualapai War
armed conflict
Ottoman–Safavid conflict series of wars
Peloponnesian War
First Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)
Pentland Rising armed rebellion
War of the Two Kings
Continuation War
First Ivorian Civil War civil war
Destruction of the Seven Cities
Spanish–American War
Vendée uprising civil war
Second Italian War of Independence
Spanish conquest of Cuba conquest
Second Ivorian Civil War civil war
First Punic War
Kampania wrześniowa konflikt zbrojny
Arab Revolt revolt
Finnish War
Bolivian campaign of Che Guevara armed conflict
War of the Austrian Succession
Deluge
Luso-Brazilian War
The Deluge (Swedish invasion of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Second Northern War
Spanish conquest of El Salvador conquest
Mongolian Revolution of 1921 armed conflict
Spanish conquest of Honduras conquest
Kumeyaay attack of 1775 armed conflict
Batavian revolt revolt
Iberian War
Second Anglo-Dutch War
Tainan Incident of 1915 armed conflict
Uruguayan War of Independence war of independence
Dano-Swedish conflicts of the late 17th century series of wars
Third Anglo-Dutch War
Second Sacred War sacred war
Nine Years' War in Ireland
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
Anglo-Zulu War
Indo-Pakistani wars
Indian Creek
surface form: Black Hawk War
Luso-Dutch War in Brazil colonial war
Boer–Zulu conflicts series of wars
Kargil War armed conflict
Reconquista religious war
Kalinga War ancient war
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948
Third Sacred War sacred war