witness
C960
concept
A witness is an individual who directly observes or has knowledge of an event or circumstance and can provide testimony or evidence about it.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| witness canonical | 5 |
| eyewitness account | 4 |
| UFO witness | 3 |
| Oklahoma City bombing witness | 1 |
| alleged poltergeist case witness | 1 |
| child witness | 1 |
| eyewitness chronicler | 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: witness
Generated description
A witness is an individual who directly observes or has knowledge of an event or circumstance and can provide testimony or evidence about it.
Instances (16)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| The Hell of Treblinka | eyewitness account |
| Kenneth Arnold | UFO witness |
| Ken Arnold | UFO witness |
| Holocaust testimony | eyewitness account |
| Tituba | — |
| Michael Fortier | Oklahoma City bombing witness |
| A True Reportory of the Wracke, and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight | eyewitness account |
| Jules Schelvis | — |
| Betty Hill | UFO witness |
| Marina Oswald Porter | — |
| Jennet Device | — |
| Elizabeth Parris | child witness |
| Six Red Months in Russia | eyewitness account |
| Priscus of Panium | eyewitness chronicler |
| Janet Hodgson | alleged poltergeist case witness |
| Lori Fortier | — |