Embodiments of the invention provide a method and a device for obtaining a type relation. On one hand, the method provided by the embodiments of the invention comprises the following steps: obtaining entireties and description texts of the entireties to obtain types corresponding to the entireties, and generating the description text of each type according to the description texts of the entities corresponding to each type; and then, extracting M groups of types conforming to the specified type relation from the description text of each type, wherein M is a positive integer. Therefore, the method and the device in the technical scheme provided by the embodiments of the invention can be used for automatically obtaining the relation of the types of the entities, improving the efficiency of obtaining the relation of the types of the entities and reducing the cost of obtaining the relation of the types of the entities.