The Time Person of the Year is sometimes not an actual person. Often it is a group of people, and sometimes it is something completely nonhuman, like "The Computer", or "The Endangered Earth". There is speculation that this year, it could be an AI. There are also sometimes cases where there are multiple distinct winners: For example, last year, the Person of the Year was "Volodymyr Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine".

How each option resolves:

• "It will be a single person, unshared," resolves YES if the PotY is a single, specific person, and there is only one PotY. So for example, last year it would have resolved NO since Zelensky shared the title with the spirit of Ukraine. It also would have resolved NO in 2006, when the winner was "you" because that isn't a specific person. It also has to be a person who is definitely real, so no fictional or mythological characters. Dead historical figures do count though.

• "It will not be a specific person," resolves YES if the PotY is a group of people considered as a collective or something nonhuman, even if there are multiple PotYs and one of them is a person. For example, it would have resolved YES last year, since, although one of the winners was a person, the spirit of Ukraine is not a specific person. However, if there are multiple distinct PotY and both are single people, then it resolves NO (e.g. in 1972, it was Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger).

• "It will be a group of people" resolves YES if at least one PotY is a group rather than a single person, or if multiple distinct people are the PotY.

• "It will be nonhuman" means that at least one PotY is not a human or a group of people. It can, however be an abstract concept related to people, like the spirit of Ukraine last year. The PotY has only been nonhuman two other times (the two mentioned in the description).

• "It will be abstract and nonhuman," means that at least one PotY is not a particular human, object, or group, but rather something abstract. The only time this has happened was last year with the spirit of Ukraine.

• "It will be a nonspecific person," means that at least one winner is a person, but does not refer to one person, group of people, or character in particular. It could refer to some abstract ideal of a person, or to a single but unspecified member of a group (like "The American soldier").

• "It will be a fictional character," means at least one winner is fictional. A religious or mythological character doesn't count as fictional for this option, even if they don't really exist.

• "It will be a religious/mythological figure," is self-explanatory. As with the other options, it counts as long as at least one PotY fits.

• "It will be someone who is already dead," means that at least one PotY is dead at the time that Time releases their pick for Person of the Year.

• "There will be multiple distinct Persons of the Year," means that there are multiple people, groups, or things that are jointly considered the Person of the Year (e.g., last year, or 1972). However, they must be presented as distinct (basically, there should be an "and" in the statement of who the PotY is), not as a single group. For example, in 2018, the PotY was "The Guardians", which does not count as multiple distinct PotYs because the Person of the Year was the entire group, not the individual journalists as distinct, individual winners.

All options refer to the 2023 Person of the Year. If it is ambiguous what the Person of the Year is meant to refer to (e.g., if it unclear whether it refers to a group of people or a nonspecific member of the group), I may resolve some options to a percentage.