Answer:
If your question is whether a noun can be a person, a place or a thing, the answer is that it can be any of them.
Nouns are the words that we use to name living beings (people, animals or plants), things, ideas, feelings or qualities.
Its form is a lexeme followed by possible morphemes of gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) and of number (singular or plural).
Some of them have special peculiarities:
Ambiguous: When they have the same meaning in masculine as in feminine.
Epicenes: When they have only one grammatical gender.
Heteronyms: When the feminine is formed with a different word from the masculine.