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
“The Case for Reparations”
surface form: The Case for Reparations
“Fear of a Black President”
surface form: Fear of a Black President
“The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
surface form: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
“My President Was Black”
surface form: My President Was Black
“The First White President”
surface form: The First White President
Silence: Lectures and Writings essay collection
A Year from Monday essay collection
The Art of Fiction (essay about his work and theory)
surface form: The Art of Fiction
literary essay
Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War essay collection
This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War essay collection
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
The English Mail-Coach
“Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington” (Part 2)
surface form: "Mr. Feynman Goes to Washington" (Part 2)
memoir section
All What Jazz essay collection
Less Than One essay collection
On Grief and Reason essay collection
Less Than One: Selected Essays essay collection
Watermark: An Essay on Venice
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences philosophical essay
Reveries of the Solitary Walker essay collection
“The Planning of Freedom”
surface form: The Planning of Freedom
In the Light of Logic essay collection
Mankind in the Making essay collection
While Rome Burns essay collection
The Woollcott Reader essay collection
Der Gedanke philosophical essay
Páginas Recolhidas essay collection
The Captive Mind essay collection
Road-side Dog essay collection
Decolonising the Mind essay collection
Homecoming essay collection
Moving the Centre essay collection
Pensatempos essay collection
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work essay collection
Tahrir al-Majisti commentary
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound essay collection
Law and Literature essay collection
Specific Objects
Über Begriff und Gegenstand philosophical essay
The Federalist No. 33 political essay
Robert F. Kennedy "Ripple of Hope" speech speech
court statement of Nathuram Godse speech
"The World of the Sagas" (essay)
surface form: The World of the Sagas
"The Poet and the City" (essay)
surface form: The Poet and the City
"The Guilty Vicarage" (essay)
surface form: The Guilty Vicarage
"Making, Knowing and Judging" (essay)
surface form: "Making, Knowing and Judging"
"The I Without a Self" (essay)
surface form: The I Without a Self
"The Hero in Modern Poetry" (essay)
surface form: The Hero in Modern Poetry
"The Fall of Rome" (essay)
surface form: The Fall of Rome (essay)
The Martyr as Dramatic Hero critical essay