4. The method of claim 1 , comprising: determining a candidate transcription of the utterance, the candidate transcription including a type term corresponding to the first term and a name term corresponding to the second term; determining a geographic location corresponding to the utterance; and determining that the name term does not match a reference name of an entity (i) of the entity type corresponding to the type term and (ii) in a geographic location matching the geographic location, wherein determining that, among the phonetic representations indicated in the records in the entity-type specific, geo-localized entity database for the particular geographic area, a phonetic representation of the second term matches a particular phonetic representation of a particular canonical name of a set of canonical names associated with a particular entity is in response to determining that the name term does not match the reference name of the entity (i) of the entity type corresponding to the type term and (ii) in the geographic location matching the geographic location.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein determining a geographic location corresponding to the utterance, comprises: determining a term in the candidate transcription that corresponds to the geographic location.