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Entity types (Version 1)

Entity types (Version 1)

The Version 1 entity type system is deprecated. As of 11 July 2023, the v1 Entities type system will no longer be available. To understand which Version 1 entity types have been added to or removed in Version 2, see Version 1 deprecation notes.

The following tables list the entity types and subtypes that are used in the Version 1 entity type system.

The entity type system that Natural Language Understanding uses differs based on which version date and which language you are using. For more details, see the Entity type systems page.

Entity types

Entity type
Anatomy
Award
Broadcaster
Company
Crime
Drug
EmailAddress
Facility
GeographicFeature
HealthCondition
Hashtag
IPAddress
JobTitle
Location
Movie
MusicGroup
NaturalEvent
Organization
Person
PrintMedia
Quantity
Sport
SportingEvent
TelevisionShow
TwitterHandle
Vehicle

Entity subtypes

Subtypes are determined by the disambiguated entity, not the entity type. There is no strict relationship between entity types and entity subtypes.

Entity subtype
AbusedSubstance
Academic
AcademicInstitution
AcademicPostTitle
AccidentType
Accommodation
Actor
AdministrativeDivision
AircraftDesigner
AircraftManufacturer
Airline
AirlinerAccident
Airport
AirportOperator
AmericanIndianGroup
AminoAcid
Animal
AnimalBreed
API
Appellation
AppointedRole
Appointer
Architect
ArchitecturalContractor
ArchitectureFirm
ArmedForce
Artery
ArtSeries
Artwork
Asteroid
Astronaut
AstronomicalDiscovery
AstronomicalObservatory
Athlete
AutomobileCompany
AutomobileGeneration
AutomobileModel
Award
AwardCeremony
AwardDiscipline
AwardJudge
AwardNominee
AwardPresentingOrganization
AwardWinner
BasketballConference
BasketballDivision
BasketballPlayer
BasketballTeam
Bassist
Beer
Belief
Beverage
BicycleManufacturer
BipropellantRocketEngine
Blog
Blogger
BoardMember
BoardMemberTitle
BodyOfWater
Bone
Book
BookEdition
BoxingWeightDivision
Brand
Bridge
BritishRoyalty
Broadcast
BroadcastArtist
BroadcastContent
BroadcastDistributor
Building
BuildingComplex
BuildingFunction
CameraFormat
CanadianAboriginalGroup
CandyBar
CandyBarManufacturer
Cardinal
CauseOfDeath
Cave
Celebrity
CelestialObject
Chancellor
CharacterOccupation
CharacterRank
CharacterSpecies
Cheese
Chef
ChemicalCompound
ChemicalElement
ChineseEthnicGroup
ChristianBishop
CityTown
Club
Collector
College
CollegeCoach
CollegeUniversity
Comedian
ComicBookCreator
ComicBookIssue
ComicBookPublisher
ComicBookSeries
ComicBookStory
ComicBookStoryArc
ComicStripArtist
ComicStripSyndicate
Company
CompanyFounder
CompanyShareholder
Competition
CompetitiveSpace
Composer
Composition
CompositionalForm
ComputerPeripheral
ComputingPlatform
ConcertFilm
ConcertTour
ConductedEnsemble
Conductor
Conference
ConferenceSeries
ConsumerProduct
ContentLicense
Continent
Country
CranialNerve
CreativeWork
CricketAdministrativeBody
CricketTournamentEvent
Criminal
CriminalOffense
Cuisine
CulinaryMeasure
CulinaryTool
DedicatedWork
Dedicatee
Dedicator
Degree
Deity
DietFollower
DigitalCamera
DisasterSurvivor
Disease
DiseaseCause
DiseaseOrMedicalCondition
Dish
DomesticatedAnimal
DrinkingEstablishment
Drug
Election
ElectionCampaign
EndorsedProduct
Engine
Facility
Family
FamilyName
FashionLabel
FictionalCreature
FictionalJobTitle
FictionalUniverse
FictionalUniverseCreator
FieldOfStudy
FileFormat
Film
FilmActor
FilmCharacter
FilmCinematographer
FilmCompany
FilmCritic
FilmDirector
FilmDistributor
FilmEditor
FilmFestival
FilmFestivalEvent
FilmFestivalFocus
FilmJob
FilmMusicContributor
FilmProducer
FilmSeries
FilmWriter
FootballCompetition
FootballDivision
FootballLeague
FootballManager
FootballMatch
FootballOrganization
FootballPlayer
FootballPosition
FootballTeam
FootballWorldCup
Galaxy
Game
GameDesigner
GameExpansion
GamePublisher
GeneralElection
GeographicFeature
GovernmentAgency
GovernmentalBody
GovernmentOfficeOrTitle
Governor
Guitar
Guitarist
HallOfFame
HallOfFameInductee
HistoricPlace
Hobby
HockeyCoach
HockeyConference
HockeyDivision
HockeyPlayer
HockeyTeam
Holiday
Hormone
Hospital
House
HumanLanguage
Illustrator
Industry
InfectiousDisease
Interest
InternetProtocol
Invention
Inventor
Island
JobTitle
Journal
Journalist
Judge
Kingdom
Lake
LanguageDialect
LanguageFamily
LanguageWritingSystem
LaunchSite
LegislativeCommittee
Legislature
Ligament
Lighthouse
LiterarySchoolOrMovement
Location
Magazine
ManufacturingPlant
MartialArt
MartialArtsOrganization
Mascot
Material
Mayor
MeansOfPropulsion
MedicalSpecialty
MedicalTreatment
MemberOfParliament
MeteorologicalService
MeteorShower
MilitaryConflict
MilitaryPerson
MilitaryPost
MilitaryUnit
Model
Monarch
Mountain
MultipartTVEpisode
Muscle
Museum
MusicalAlbum
MusicalArtist
MusicalGameSong
MusicalGroup
MusicalGroupMember
MusicalInstrumentCompany
MusicalPerformanceRole
MusicalRelease
MusicalTrack
MusicFestival
NaturalOrCulturalPreservationAgency
Nerve
Newspaper
NobleRank
NobleTitle
Non-ProfitOrganisation
Nutrient
OfficeHolder
OilField
OlympicAthlete
OlympicDemonstrationCompetition
OlympicEvent
OlympicEventCompetition
OlympicGames
Opera
OperaCharacter
OperaCompany
OperaHouse
OperaLibretto
OperatingSystem
OperatingSystemDeveloper
OrganismClassification
Organization
OrganizationCommittee
OrganizationSector
Park
ParliamentaryElection
PeriodicalPublisher
Person
PersonalAppearanceRole
Philosopher
Physician
Play
Poem
PoeticVerseForm
PoliticalDistrict
PoliticalIdeology
PoliticalParty
Politician
Prayer
ProductionCompany
Profession
ProfessionalField
ProgrammingLanguage
ProgrammingLanguageDesigner
ProjectParticipant
ProtectedArea
Protein
Protocol
ProtocolProvider
PublicLibrary
PublicSpeakingEvent
PublishedWork
RadioFormat
RadioNetwork
RadioStation
Rank
RecordLabel
RecordProducer
RecurringEvent
Religion
ReligiousLeadershipRole
ReligiousOrganization
ReligiousPractice
ReligiousText
ReportIssuingInstitution
RiskFactor
River
Road
Rocket
RocketEngine
RocketEngineFuel
RocketFuel
RocketFunction
RocketManufacturer
Saint
Satellite
School
SchoolDistrict
SchoolMascot
SchoolNewspaper
SchoolSportsTeam
Scientist
ShipBuilder
ShoppingCenter
ShortStory
SkiArea
Skyscraper
SoccerClub
Software
SoftwareDeveloper
SoftwareLicense
Soundtrack
SpaceAgency
Spacecraft
SpaceMission
Spaceport
Sport
SportsAssociation
SportsEquipment
SportsLeagueChampionship
SportsLeagueChampionshipEvent
SportsLeagueDraft
SportsOfficial
SportsTeam
Stadium
Star
StarSystem
StarSystemBody
Station
Supercouple
Symptom
Synthesizer
Telescope
TelescopePlatform
TelevisionShow
TennisPlayer
TennisTournament
Theater
TheaterCharacter
TheaterProduction
TopLevelDomainRegistry
TouristAttraction
Tower
TradeUnion
TransitLine
TransportOperator
TransportTerminus
TropicalCyclone
TVActor
TVCharacter
TVCrewRole
TVEpisode
TVNetwork
TVPersonality
TVProducer
TVSeason
TVWriter
TypeOfPlaceOfWorship
UnfinishedWork
UnitOfMass
UnitOfVolume
University
U.S.Congressperson
Vein
VideoGame
VideoGameDesigner
VideoGameDeveloper
VideoGameEngine
VideoGamePlatform
VideoGamePublisher
VisualArtist
WebBrowserExtension
Website
WineProducer
WineRegion
WorkOfFiction
Writer

Relations entity types

For languages that use the Version 1 entity type system that also support relations, relations results contain entity types that are different from the entity types returned in entities results. To return the relations entity types in your entities results, you can specify one of the following public entity models in the model option for the entities feature to override the default entity detection model.

Model ID Description
ar-news Arabic news
en-news English news
es-news Spanish news

The following entity types can be identified with the relations entity models:

Entity type
Age
Anatomy
Animal
Award
Cardinal
Crime
Date
Degree
Duration
EmailAddress
Event
EventBusiness
EventCommunication
EventCustody
EventDemonstration
EventEducation
EventElection
EventGathering
EventLegal
EventLegislation
EventMeeting
EventPerformance
EventPersonnel
EventViolence
Facility
Food
GeographicFeature
GeopoliticalEntity
HealthCondition
Law
Location
Money
Measure
NaturalEvent
Organization
Ordinal
Percent
Person
Phone
Plant
Product
SportingEvent
Substance
Ticker
Time
TitleWork
Vehicle
Weapon
Weather
Web