short story
C675
concept
A short story is a brief, self-contained work of fiction that focuses on a limited cast of characters and a concise plot to evoke a specific mood, theme, or insight.
All labels observed (23)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| short story canonical | 1,127 |
| short story collection | 645 |
| novella | 306 |
| science fiction short story | 132 |
| comic fiction | 13 |
| frame tale episode | 4 |
| short fiction | 4 |
| short prose piece | 4 |
| short prose work | 4 |
| horror short story | 3 |
| serialized story | 3 |
| cuento | 2 |
| fictional story segment | 2 |
| humorous tale | 2 |
| pulp magazine story | 2 |
| Bengali-language short story | 1 |
| fantasy short story | 1 |
| relato breve | 1 |
| romantic short story | 1 |
| short narrative | 1 |
| short work | 1 |
| shortStory | 1 |
| короткий рассказ | 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: short story
Generated description
A short story is a brief, self-contained work of fiction that focuses on a limited cast of characters and a concise plot to evoke a specific mood, theme, or insight.
Instances (2,137)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Wunschloses Unglück | novella |
| A Sorrow Beyond Dreams | novella |
| Die linkshändige Frau | novella |
| The Left-Handed Woman | novella |
| Krazy Kat and 76 More | short story collection |
|
Virginia Dare
surface form:
Virginia Dare (Fielding Dawson work)
|
novella |
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Sredni Vashtar
surface form:
"Sredni Vashtar"
|
— |
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short story "Sister Act" by Fannie Hurst
surface form:
Sister Act
|
— |
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Amasa Delano
surface form:
Benito Cereno
|
novella |
| Histoires naturelles | short story collection |
| That Smell | novella |
| The Man Who Turned to Stone | — |
| Encounters | short story collection |
| The Demon Lover and Other Stories | short story collection |
| The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen | short story collection |
| Fierce Fairytales | short story collection |
| Great Goddesses | short story collection |
| The Ebb-Tide | novella |
| Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread | short story collection |
|
story "The Human Claim"
surface form:
The Human Claim
|
— |
|
story "The Third Person"
surface form:
The Third Person
|
— |
| True Short Story | — |
| The Second Person | — |
| The Third Person | — |
| I Know Something You Don’t Know | — |
| The History of History | — |
| The Writ | — |
| The Start of Things | — |
| The Last Person | — |
| The Present | — |
|
The Third Person (story)
surface form:
The Third Person
|
— |
| Traumnovelle | novella |
| Dream Story | novella |
| The Witch Diggers | short story collection |
|
Anno Dracula series
surface form:
Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories
|
short story collection |
|
story "The Beholder"
surface form:
The Beholder
|
— |
|
story "The Poet"
surface form:
The Poet
|
— |
|
story "The Art of Elsewhere"
surface form:
The Art of Elsewhere
|
— |
|
Rain
surface form:
Rain (short story)
|
— |
| The Grownup | novella |
| The Spectre Bridegroom | — |
| The Inn Kitchen | — |
| The Italian Banditti | — |
| Tales from the White Hart | short story collection |
| The Martian Chronicles | short story collection |
| The Other Side of the Sky | short story collection |
| The Illustrated Man | short story collection |
| To Build a Fire | — |
| The Sentinel | science fiction short story |
| The Decameron | short story collection |