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
How Contagion Works book
Betty Friedan
surface form: The Feminine Mystique
book
Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern book
Media Spectacle book
Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy book
Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity book
Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond book
Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism book
Media and War book
Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre book
Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era book
The Postmodern Turn book
The Postmodern Adventure book
book "Mission with LeMay: My Story"
surface form: Mission with LeMay: My Story
book
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World book
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning nonfiction book
The Persian Gulf TV War book
The Old Swimmin’-Hole and ‘Leven More Poems book
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast book
Languages of Art book
The Structure of Appearance philosophical work
Ways of Worldmaking book
Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols book
Notes on the State of Virginia book
The Emperor's New Mind book
The Road to Reality book
Cycles of Time popular science book
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe book
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind book
Science and the Mind book
conversations with Fran Lebowitz
surface form: Conversations with Fran Lebowitz
book
Starting Over (memoir) book
A Traveler at Forty book
Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub non-fiction book
Twelve Men book
Yellow Pages reference work
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder nonfiction book
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes nonfiction book
The White Darkness nonfiction book
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian book
No Cross, No Crown book
The New World non-fiction book
The Age of Revolution non-fiction book
Scotch Reviewers: The Edinburgh Review, 1802–1815 book
The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli book
After the Revolution: Profiles of Early American Culture book
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History book
The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament book
Geschichte der Städteverfassung in Italien book
Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter book