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
book "The Southern Case for School Segregation"
surface form: The Southern Case for School Segregation
book
Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite book
Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law nonfiction book
Guilty Men book
Debts of Honour book
The Politics of Paradise book
Loyalists and Loners book
book "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department"
surface form: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
book
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa non-fiction book
Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries book
Model Checking (book)
surface form: Model Checking
book
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave autobiography
Edward Ball
surface form: Slaves in the Family
nonfiction book
Tales of the South Pacific book
Return to Paradise book
What Is Life? book
On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion philosophical treatise
An Essay on the Government of Dependencies political treatise
An Essay on the Origin and Formation of the Romance Languages linguistics book
On the Use and Abuse of Political Terms book
Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History book
History of the Communist Party of the United States book
From Bryan to Stalin book
Outline Political History of the Americas book
The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons book
Kitab of Sibawayh book
al-Kitāb book
Thinking About Crime book
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It book
Varieties of Police Behavior book
Crime and Human Nature book
The Battle for God book
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth book
The Free Sea book
Vitamin C and the Common Cold book
Jessica Bruder
surface form: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
nonfiction book
Christopher and His Kind book
Lions and Shadows book
The Accidental Billionaires nonfiction book
A. Ivić, The Riemann Zeta-Function book
Commentaries on Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae philosophical work
De jure naturae et gentium book
De officio hominis et civis treatise
De statu imperii Germanici political treatise
An Autobiography book
The Natural House book
Foundations of Algebraic Geometry treatise
Basic Number Theory book
Sur les courbes algébriques et les variétés qui s’en déduisent book
L’intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications book