Please select the most specific category that applies. As a last resort, select thing.

• person, family, animal, language, nationality, ethnic-group, regional-group, religious-group, political-movement
• organization, company, government-organization, military, criminal-organization, political-party, market-sector
  school, university, research-institute
  team, league
• location, city, city-district, county, state, province, territory, country, local-region, country-region, world-region, continent
  ocean, sea, lake, river, gulf, bay, strait, canal
  peninsula, mountain, volcano, valley, canyon, island, desert, forest
  moon, planet, star, constellation
• facility, airport, station, port, tunnel, bridge, road, railway-line, canal
  building, theater, museum, palace, hotel, worship-place, sports-facility
  market, park, zoo, amusement-park
• event, incident, natural-disaster, earthquake, war, conference, game, festival
• product, vehicle, ship, aircraft, aircraft-type, spaceship, car-make
  work-of-art, picture, music, show, broadcast-program
  
• publication, book, newspaper, magazine, journal
  
• natural-object
• award, law, court-decision, treaty, music-key, musical-note, food-dish, writing-script, variable, program

• molecular-physical-entity, small-molecule, protein, protein-family, protein-segment, amino-acid, macro-molecular-complex, enzyme, nucleic-acid
• pathway, gene, dna-sequence, cell, cell-line, species, taxon, disease, medical-condition

Note: If the text outside the name explicitly supports a more specific type than what is listed above, e.g. news agency in the sentence “According to the news agency AFP ...” then use the more specific news agency as the NE type. By contrast, for the sentence “According to AFP ...” select publication from the list above as the NE type for AFP.
More on selecting an NE type.

Things that are not a named entity:

• Headlines of newspaper articles, magazine articles, titles of academic papers
• Special concepts: byline, street-address. Bylines and street addresses are not marked as a name, but typically contain names as a subcomponent (e.g. the name of a road in an address).

Obsolete named entity types:

• public-institution (use  government-organization  or  facility as appropriate)

Named-entity type selected: