Entity types used by Bing Web Search API

This section contains the list entity hints that the EntityPresentationInfo object's entityTypeHint field can be set to. 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