Entity (disambiguation)

An entity is something that exists as itself.

Entity may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Entity (2012 film), a British supernatural thriller
• Entity (2014 film), an English-language French sci-fi horror short
• "Entity" (Stargate SG-1), a 2001 American sci-fi television episode

Music

• Entities (album), a 2007 album by Malefice
• Entity (album), a 2011 album by Origin
• Entity (netlabel), a Belgian label specialising in experimental electronic music

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• "Entity" (short story), a 1949 science fiction story
• Entity FX, a visual effects company
• Life Entity, a fictional creature in DC comics

Specific uses of entity

In the humanities

• Legal entity, a body holding rights and obligations
• Non-physical entity, in philosophy
  • Spirit (vital essence), in folklore and religion
• Political entity (or polity), in geopolitics and society

In computing

• Entity (computer science), a user-relevant virtual object with an identity independent of change to its attributes
  • Entities (or the entity class) in the entity–relationship model, a conceptual model for data which can be used to design and create relational databases
    • Enhanced entity–relationship model or extended entity–relationship model, a high-level or conceptual data model for design of databases incorporating extensions to the original entity–relationship model
  • Entity-control-boundary, entity-boundary-control or boundary-control-entity, an architectural pattern used in use-case driven object-oriented software design that structures the classes composing a software according to their responsibilities in the use-case realization
• Character entity reference, an XML/HTML escape code for a single typographical character
• SGML entity, a primitive data type in Standard Generalized Markup Language

See also

• The Entity (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Entity
• Entitativity, in social sciences
• Entity concept, the accounting principle
• Entity Framework, an open-source, .Net object mapping system
• Entity Registry, a Norwegian database of legal entities