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)

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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
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear book
Moralia philosophical work
Interest and Prices book
Interest and Prices: Foundations of a Theory of Monetary Policy book
The Making of a Comrade book
The Politics of Our Caribbean Civilization book
A Street in Bronzeville book
The Bean Eaters book
Conjure: Selected Poems, 1963–1970 book
Air Tight book
A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts book
Das Kapital book
Angela’s Ashes
surface form: Angela's Ashes
memoir
Fear No Evil book
The Case for Democracy book
Defending Identity book
Space, Time and Architecture book
Mechanization Takes Command book
Bauen in Frankreich, Bauen in Eisen, Bauen in Eisenbeton book
1948 (Mechanization Takes Command)
surface form: Mechanization Takes Command
book
In Contradiction non-fiction book
Beyond the Limits of Thought non-fiction book
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic book
Logic: A Very Short Introduction book
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness book
How Anxiety Became a Disorder book
Metapatterns: Across Space, Time, and Mind book
Gaia’s Body: Toward a Physiology of Earth book
CO2 Rising: The World’s Greatest Environmental Challenge book
Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be book
"Baseball Is a Funny Game"
surface form: Baseball Is a Funny Game
book
Education in Japan (English-language essays) non-fiction book
Pedro Domingos
surface form: The Master Algorithm
book
Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace book
Why Men Love War
The Sibling Effect nonfiction book
Simplexity book
Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio nonfiction book
Moon Hunters: NASA's Remarkable Expeditions to the Ends of the Solar System nonfiction book
Lucky Man: A Memoir book
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist book
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future book
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality book
De dialectica philosophical treatise
CE
surface form: Catholic Encyclopedia
reference work
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance book
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature book
Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic book
Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing book
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. book