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
Short Studies on Great Subjects non-fiction book
Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies book
The Pragmatic Programmer book
The Affluent Society book
The New Industrial State book
American Capitalism book
Economics and the Public Purpose book
No Is Not Enough book
On Fire nonfiction book
The Art of the Deal book
Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar book
Kardashian Konfidential book
Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang memoir
Reason, Truth and History book
Representation and Reality book
Mind, Language and Reality book
Realism with a Human Face book
The Many Faces of Realism philosophical work
Letters from Exile book
The Life and Death of Leon Trotsky book
Jean van Duren
surface form: Anti-Machiavel
political treatise
Essai sur l’étude des fonctions données par leur développement de Taylor book
memoirs of Anna Leonowens
surface form: Memoirs of Anna Leonowens
autobiographical work
What I See book
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin autobiography
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism book
Consciencism philosophical work
I Speak of Freedom book
Dark Days in Ghana book
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature reference work
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature book
Once Upon a Quinceañera nonfiction book
A Wedding in Haiti memoir
The Woman I Kept to Myself book
Theoretical Nuclear Physics scientific book
Knowledge and Wonder popular science book
Memoir of the Rev. John Rodgers, D.D. book
Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits book
A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century book
Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger multi-volume work
Semi-Homemade Cooking 2 non-fiction book
Semi-Homemade Cooking Made Light non-fiction book
Semi-Homemade Desserts non-fiction book
Made From Scratch: A Memoir book
The Anatolian book
A Life book
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution popular science book
The Quark and the Jaguar popular science book
Encyclopaedia Britannica reference work
Al-Bakri
surface form: Kitab al-Masalik wa-l-Mamalik
book