slave
C5543
concept
A slave is a person who is legally or forcibly treated as property, deprived of freedom and autonomy, and compelled to work under the control of another.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| former slave | 11 |
| slave canonical | 9 |
| enslaved woman | 7 |
| enslaved man | 4 |
| enslaved person in fiction | 4 |
| enslaved African woman | 1 |
| former enslaved person | 1 |
| runaway slave | 1 |
| serf class | 1 |
| slave character | 1 |
| slave soldier | 1 |
| thrall | 1 |
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: slave
Generated description
A slave is a person who is legally or forcibly treated as property, deprived of freedom and autonomy, and compelled to work under the control of another.
Instances (35)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| George Harris | enslaved person in fiction |
| Florens’s mother | enslaved African woman |
| Aunt Martha | enslaved woman |
| Broomhilda von Shaft | — |
| La Malinche | — |
| Abu Lu’lu’a Firuz | — |
| Thomas Peters | former enslaved person |
| Onesimus | — |
| Saint Josephine Bakhita | former slave |
| Helots | serf class |
| Unsullied | slave soldier |
| Olaudah Equiano | former slave |
| Haydée | — |
| Melkorka | thrall |
| Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey | former slave |
| Biddy Mason | former slave |
| Spartacus | — |
|
Hemings
surface form:
Sally Hemings
|
enslaved woman |
| Topsy | enslaved person in fiction |
| Zarité Sedella | enslaved woman |
| Babo | — |
| Solimán | enslaved person in fiction |
| Samuel Ajayi Crowther | former slave |
| Abu'l-Misk Kafur | former slave |
| Epictetus | former slave |
| Isabella Van Wagenen | former slave |
| Betty Hemings | enslaved woman |
| Sethe | former slave |
|
Jim is held as a captive slave on the farm
surface form:
Jim (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
|
enslaved person in fiction |
| Qutb al-Din Aibak | former slave |
| Abu Lulu | — |
| Piruz Nahavandi | — |
| Nat Love | former slave |
| Eliza Harris | enslaved woman |
| Cario | slave character |