---
title: "MentionKind"
description: "what kind of thing a page's property names, so the grounding knows a page's author is an account and its employer a company: one row per property, for every platform or the ones listed; a template's field whose type names a kind of entity overrides it, and the person's settled words on each property and platform…"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/mentionkind
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# MentionKind

what kind of thing a page's property names, so the grounding knows a page's author is an account and its employer a company: one row per property, for every platform or the ones listed; a template's field whose type names a kind of entity overrides it, and the person's settled words on each property and platform…

[figure: MentionKind is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | the property and the platforms |
| store | postgres |
| family | sources |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `property` | `text` | yes | the property's name as the templates write it |
| `kind` | [KindOfEntity](/concepts/kindofentity) | yes |  |
| `platforms` | `[text]` | yes | empty for every platform |
| `note` | `text` | no |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns MentionKind directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.