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Unfortunately the spells Locate Object and Locate Creature lost some of their text (specially the example texts) when brought to Pathfinder from 3.5
If you want to understand what the text meant by "kind" look back at the 3.0 or 3.5 wording of the spell
(https://rpg20.com/spells.php?reptype=fullentry&valueid=280)
The specific wording change is "The character can search for general items such as a stairway, a sword, or a jewel, in which case the character locates the nearest one of its...."