historical source
C6136
concept
A historical source is any original material—such as documents, artifacts, recordings, or testimonies—created in the past that provides evidence or information about historical events, people, or conditions.
All labels observed (34)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| historical source canonical | 63 |
| historical account | 34 |
| historical treatise | 15 |
| primary source material | 12 |
| historical record | 8 |
| historical manuscript | 7 |
| primary source collection | 6 |
| source material | 4 |
| Islamic historical source | 2 |
| Japanese chronicle | 2 |
| historical document feature | 2 |
| historical document series | 2 |
| historiographical source | 2 |
| historiographical text | 2 |
| primary source compilation | 2 |
| Assyrian historical source | 1 |
| Chinese historical source | 1 |
| Chinese local history source | 1 |
| archival source | 1 |
| chronological document | 1 |
| genealogical source | 1 |
| historical mathematical document | 1 |
| historical records | 1 |
| historical source corpus | 1 |
| historical source on pre-Islamic Arabia | 1 |
| historical sources | 1 |
| medieval historical source | 1 |
| medieval historical sources | 1 |
| official Chinese historical text | 1 |
| primary source text | 1 |
| primary-source compilation | 1 |
| royal chronology source | 1 |
| исторический источник | 1 |
| מקור היסטורי עתיק | 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: historical source
Generated description
A historical source is any original material—such as documents, artifacts, recordings, or testimonies—created in the past that provides evidence or information about historical events, people, or conditions.