entity-types.md

title	titleSuffix	description	author	manager	ms.service	ms.subservice	ms.topic	ms.date	ms.author
Entity types used by the Bing Entity Search API	Bing Services	Provides the list of possible entity types that the Bing Entity Search API may return.	swhite-msft	ehansen	bing-search-services	bing-entity-search	reference	07/15/2020	scottwhi

Entity types used by Bing Entity Search API

This section contains the list possible entity hints. The hints are grouped by category of entities.

Base entity types

• Generic
• Person
• Place
• Media
• Organization

Place base type entity hints

• Attraction
• City
• Continent
• Country
• Hotel
• House
• LocalBusiness
• Locality
• MinorRegion
• Neighborhood
• Other
• PointOfInterest
• PostalCode
• RadioStation
• Region
• Restaurant
• State
• StreetAddress
• SubRegion
• TouristAttraction
• Travel

Media base type entity hints

• Book
• Movie
• TelevisionSeason
• TelevisionShow
• VideoGame

Event-related entity hints

• Event

Profession-related entity hints

• Actor
• Artist
• Attorney

Education-related entity hints

• CollegeOrUniversity
• School
• Speciality

Other entity hints

• Animal
• Car
• Drug
• Food
• Product
• SportsTeam