The phrase "a compilation of facts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a collection or gathering of information that is factual in nature.
Example: "The report is a compilation of facts gathered from various studies and surveys conducted over the past year."
Alternatives: "a collection of data" or "an assembly of information."
These and other topics shed light on a fascinating organism, but the book is more than a compilation of facts.
Specifically, the officials noted that Mr. Annan spoke of "findings and conclusions," which anticipated a judgment and not just a compilation of facts; and that he said the team "will focus on Jenin to begin with," while the Security Council had specified only the Jenin camp.
It is not simply a compilation of facts.
Her book is no less rigorous for it, but the lack of intimacy with the key figures does serve to remove a sense of drama from the narrative, and the book becomes more a compilation of facts and events, a point-by-point indictment rather than a page-turning tale.
More than a compilation of legal facts, the book captures the defining characteristics and principal achievements of Roman legal culture through a millennium of development.
These are among the new entries in the "Guinness World Records 2012", an annual compendium of trivia released on September 15th.Created in Britain in 1955, the first edition, then known as the "Guinness Book of Records", was a marketing tool: a compilation of interesting facts distributed to pub landlords to promote Guinness, an Irish drink.
"We present history in the classroom not as a compilation of detached facts but as essential knowledge necessary for young people to play a vital role in the global community.
Creation of a nonfiction work, even a compilation of pure fact, entails originality.
This history is usually formed by a compilation of factors.
"Other People's Money," which originally appeared as a series of essays in Harper's, is a polemic, but it's also a huge compilation of facts and figures.
The Russian statement, by contrast, called the report "a compilation of well-known facts that have intentionally been given a politicized intonation".
