biography

C717
concept

A biography is a detailed narrative account of a person's life, focusing on their experiences, achievements, and influence within a historical or social context.

All labels observed (32)

Label Occurrences
biography canonical 157
political memoir 125
biographical book 121

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: biography
Generated description
A biography is a detailed narrative account of a person's life, focusing on their experiences, achievements, and influence within a historical or social context.

Instances (631)

Instance Via concept surface
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study
Life and Sayings of Amma Syncletica biographical work
The Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson biographical work
Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich (autobiographical subject)
surface form: Pistol: The Life of Pete Maravich
biographical book
Don’t Let the Lipstick Fool You (autobiography)
surface form: Don’t Let the Lipstick Fool You
sports autobiography
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
Reflections of a Radical Moderate political memoir
My Dad, the Babe biographical book
Old Men Forget political memoir
Ten Years to Save the West political memoir
Life of Isaac Watts biographical work
Life of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham biographical sketch
Lives of the Poets biographical work
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones biographical book
The Haldeman Diaries political memoir
Extreme (biography of Ozzy Osbourne) biographical book
"Be the One: Six True Stories of Teens Overcoming Hardship with Hope"
surface form: Be the One: Six True Stories of Teens Overcoming Hardship with Hope
biographical book
La France pour la vie political memoir
Black American Leaders of the Twentieth Century biographical work
The Last of His Kind
Finding Everett Ruess biographical book
Virginia Woolf: A Biography
The Acid Test: An Autobiography sports memoir
The Life of Charles Dickens (as editor and commentator) biographical work
reminiscences of Charles Dickens (lectures)
surface form: Reminiscences of Charles Dickens
biographical work
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
“Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”
surface form: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
political memoir
Martin J. Sherwin
surface form: American Prometheus
biographical book
The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity
Tiger Woods (biography)
Can You Say... Hero? profile