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 Oligarchy of Venice book
Venice and Bonaparte book
The American City book
The Oligarchy of Venice: An Essay book
The Heel of War: A Study of Modern Italy book
The American City: A Problem in Democracy book
Man Is Not Alone book
God in Search of Man book
The Sabbath book
Israel: An Echo of Eternity book
Who Is Man? book
Turnaround of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics book
National Book Award for Arts and Letters
surface form: The Armies of the Night
nonfiction novel
Institutiones jurisprudentiae divinae book
Introductio ad philosophiam aulicam philosophical work
Fundamenta juris naturae et gentium treatise
De crimine magiae philosophical treatise
De jure circa nuptias book
The Biographical History of Philosophy book
The Life of Goethe book
Problems of Life and Mind philosophical work
The Physiology of Common Life book
Gasoline book
The Happy Birthday of Death book
The Vestal Lady on Brattle book
Long Live Man book
Everest the Hard Way book
I Chose to Climb book
The Next Horizon book
Mountaineer: Thirty Years of Climbing on the World’s Great Peaks book
Lectures in Feedback Design for Multivariable Systems book
Bike Riding in Los Angeles non-fiction book
What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting nonfiction book
Three Stories and Ten Poems book
The Face of War non-fiction book
The Trouble I’ve Seen book
Travels with Myself and Another book
The View from the Ground book
Nine Stories book
Franny and Zooey book
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction book
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love book
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? book
Where I'm Calling From book
Furious Seasons book
Elephant and Other Stories book
Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories book
Ultramarine book
A New Path to the Waterfall book
Fidel y Raúl, mis hermanos: La historia secreta book