non-fiction work

C46
concept

A non-fiction work is a factual written, audio, or visual composition that presents information, ideas, or real events grounded in reality rather than imagination.

All labels observed (85)

Label Occurrences
book 11,553
non-fiction book 3,010
philosophical work 1,098

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: non-fiction work
Generated description
A non-fiction work is a factual written, audio, or visual composition that presents information, ideas, or real events grounded in reality rather than imagination.

Instances (15,189)

Instance Via concept surface
The Conscientious Objector in America book
What Is Our Destiny? book
Socialism Re-examined book
The Test of Freedom book
The Choice Before Us book
The Prerequisites of Peace book
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine book
The Human Use of Human Beings book
Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series scientific book
Samkhyakarika philosophical text
Smoke and Mirrors book
Fragile Things book
Weisskunig propaganda work
Traité de dynamique book
The Shattered Crystal Ball book
On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis book
Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis book
Shiva Sutras philosophical text
Gottfried Arnold
surface form: Unparteiische Kirchen- und Ketzer-Historie
book
Vijay Joshi
surface form: India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity
book
Det norske Folks Historie multi-volume work
The Alanbrooke Diaries non-fiction book
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America political treatise
Italian Journey non-fiction book
Theory of Colours book
Discourses on Davila nonfiction book
Book II
surface form: Book II (The Advancement of Learning)
philosophical text
De augmentis scientiarum philosophical work
Of Anger philosophical work
Imaginary Homelands non-fiction book
Love, Loss, and What We Ate memoir
Feel Free non-fiction book
Intimations book
The Souls of Black Folk book
Black Reconstruction in America book
The Philadelphia Negro book
Dusk of Dawn book
Women, Race, & Class book
Are Prisons Obsolete? book
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance book
Angela Davis: An Autobiography book
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms philosophical work
Substance and Function philosophical work
Language and Myth philosophical work
An Essay on Man book
The Myth of the State book
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy book
Kant’s Life and Thought book
The Problem of Knowledge philosophical work
A Compass to Fulfillment book