essay

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concept

An essay is a structured piece of writing that presents a focused argument, analysis, or reflection on a specific topic, typically supported by evidence and organized into an introduction, body, and conclusion.

All labels observed (49)

Label Occurrences
essay collection 736
essay canonical 509
philosophical essay 185

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: essay
Generated description
An essay is a structured piece of writing that presents a focused argument, analysis, or reflection on a specific topic, typically supported by evidence and organized into an introduction, body, and conclusion.

Instances (1,760)

Instance Via concept surface
Nyayabhashya commentary
preface by C. P. Snow
surface form: Preface by C. P. Snow
introductory essay
Newtonian Studies essay collection
The Algebra of Infinite Justice essay collection
Listening to Grasshoppers essay collection
Field Notes on Democracy essay collection
Capitalism: A Ghost Story political essay
Walking with the Comrades
The Forgotten Prisoners political essay
The Federalist No. 46 political essay
The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence political essay
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Essays essay collection
Traditional and Critical Theory philosophical essay
The Authoritarian State
The Breath of Life written work
“The Work Before Us”
surface form: The Work Before Us
speech
“The Future of India”
surface form: The Future of India
speech
Counting My Chickens... And Other Home Thoughts essay collection
“My Plan of Campaign”
surface form: My Plan of Campaign
Symmetries and Reflections essay collection
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
The Defence of Poesy literary criticism essay
"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)
the Over-Soul
Self-Reliance
Woman in the Nineteenth Century feminist text
Solidarity, Solitude essay collection
Another Beauty essay collection
Commentary on Sifra de-Tzniuta commentary
Hazards of Prophecy
Ethics and the History of Philosophy essay collection
The Duties of Man and Other Essays essay collection
"Is Japan a Menace to Asia?"
surface form: Is Japan a Menace to Asia?
political essay
American Diplomacy essay collection
Software is eating the world
introduction by Vincent Scully
surface form: Introduction by Vincent Scully
introductory essay
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life essay collection
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black essay collection
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics essay collection
Black Looks: Race and Representation essay collection
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom essay collection
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope essay collection
All About Love: New Visions essay collection
Salvation: Black People and Love essay collection
Federalist No. 6 political essay
Custom and Myth essay collection
Letters to Dead Authors essay collection
Essays in Little essay collection
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit essay collection