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 (EP), a 2024 EP by Cha Eun-woo 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 Entities (Bosnia and Herzegovina politics), a form of political division of the country

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)

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