diff --git a/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/gatsby-node.js b/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/gatsby-node.js
index 0d0889a8b0ff0..9da4419a90bcb 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/gatsby-node.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/gatsby-node.js
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ const { downloadContentfulAssets } = require(`./download-contentful-assets`)
 
 const conflictFieldPrefix = `contentful`
 
-const restrictedContentTypes = [`entity`, `reference`]
-
 exports.setFieldsOnGraphQLNodeType = require(`./extend-node-type`).extendNodeType
 
 const validateContentfulAccess = async pluginOptions => {
@@ -306,30 +304,6 @@ exports.sourceNodes = async (
     }
   }
 
-  // Check for restricted content type names
-  const useNameForId = pluginConfig.get(`useNameForId`)
-
-  contentTypeItems.forEach(contentTypeItem => {
-    // Establish identifier for content type
-    //  Use `name` if specified, otherwise, use internal id (usually a natural-language constant,
-    //  but sometimes a base62 uuid generated by Contentful, hence the option)
-    let contentTypeItemId
-    if (useNameForId) {
-      contentTypeItemId = contentTypeItem.name.toLowerCase()
-    } else {
-      contentTypeItemId = contentTypeItem.sys.id.toLowerCase()
-    }
-
-    if (restrictedContentTypes.includes(contentTypeItemId)) {
-      reporter.panic({
-        id: CODES.FetchContentTypes,
-        context: {
-          sourceMessage: `Restricted ContentType name found. The name "${contentTypeItemId}" is not allowed.`,
-        },
-      })
-    }
-  })
-
   const allLocales = locales
   locales = locales.filter(pluginConfig.get(`localeFilter`))
   reporter.verbose(
diff --git a/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/report.js b/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/report.js
index 5444a86693f60..985276124c839 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/report.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby-source-contentful/src/report.js
@@ -23,9 +23,4 @@ export const ERROR_MAP = {
     level: `ERROR`,
     category: `THIRD_PARTY`,
   },
-  [CODES.FetchContentTypes]: {
-    text: context => context.sourceMessage,
-    level: `ERROR`,
-    category: `THIRD_PARTY`,
-  },
 }