Each Subject should have a Subject Type (the same way as Database Items have a type). There are different types such as organizations or people. If you're looking for examples, click on the Subject Type below and you'll be taken to its page, which will show Verified Subjects within that Type.
The most important Subject Types are Brand and Series since they are one of the primary ways for Database Items to be identified and linked together. Please become familiar with how to decide if a Subject should be a Brand, Series, or Franchise before creating new Subjects.
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Subject Type Groupings
Person
- Actor
- Architect
- Artist
- Astronaut
- Athlete
- Clergy
- Coachbuilder
- Collector
- Customizer
- Designer
- Developer
- Director
- Driver
- Engineer
- Executive
- Historical Figure
- Musician
- Performer
- Photographer
- Producer
- Royal
- Sculptor
- Soldier
- TV Personality
- Writer
Nature
- Species
- Group of Species (such as Ducks and Geese)
Other Beings
Organizations
We generally use Brand unless it is one of these:
- Airline
- Auction House
- Brewery
- Casino
- Circus
- Club
- Distributor
- Film Production Studio
- Fire Department
- Hotel
- Military Unit
- Museum
- Organization
- Police Force
- Public Transport (such as the New York City Transit Authority or Transport for London)
- Publisher
- Racing Team
- Restaurant
- Retailer
- Shipping Company
- Sports Team
- Theme Park
- Train Company (such as Amtrack or SNCF)
- TV Station
- University / College
Event Types
We generally use Event unless it is one of these:
Event Series is grouping together all years of an event, like a race series.
Locations / Political Entities
- Planet
- Country
- State (in the US or German sense, i.e. a sub-unit of a country)
- County / Province (used in France, the Netherlands, the UK, and elsewhere)
- City
- Landmark
- Building
- Race Track
- Venue
Fiction / Content
- Film
- Fictional Vehicle
- Franchise (a number of different works—for example, a book, a comic series, and a film—that have all been produced from an original creative work of fiction. Learn more about what Subjects should be classified as a franchise from the Brand, Series, or Franchise? article)
- Music Genre (currently under revision)
- Novel
- Play
- Story (currently under revision)
- TV Show
There is also a type where a
Themes
We have opted not to have wider themes as pages like Automotive, Military or Ancient would have millions and millions of entries and would be useless.
Products
- Chess Set Pattern
Comic Book Series(Merged with Series on 7 July 2023)- Game
- Magazines & Periodicals (the publication—individual issues should be Database Items)
- Series (contains individual products that were intended to belong together)
- Subscription Service (that entailed physical products)
Other
- Currency
- Honor
- Ship (like the Titanic)
- Sport
- Tribe / People (this is for tribal items like pottery and not for fictitious groups of people)
- Website
hobbyDB Related Subjects
- Collectible Type (a category in our database, see the current list here)
- List (Lists of Interests)
We are still working on the final version of Subjects and might add more Subject Types or consolidate types.