IllegalStateException: No data type for node: org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.tree.IdentNode in Hibernate

Issue

• Exception when deploying a persistence unit with an entity with a NamedQuery

  java.lang.IllegalStateException: No data type for node: org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.tree.IdentNode 
   +-[IDENT] IdentNode: 'NAME' {originalText=NAME}
  

• The entity is defined as follows:

  @Entity
  @NamedQuery(name = "empName", query = "SELECT NAME FROM EMPLOYEE")
  public class EMPLOYEE {
  @Id
      @Column(name="NAME")
      protected String name;
      ...
  }