Entity (disambiguation)

Entity may refer to:

• Entity, a unit
• a part of an Entity-relationship model or Entity-relationship diagram
• Character entity reference in HTML, XML or SGML
• Entity (netlabel), a Belgian netlabel specialising in experimental electronic music
• Legal Entity, an entity that can bear legal rights and obligations.
• Entity class, in computer programming a class that represents a thing.
• The Entity, the espionage agency of the Vatican City.

In fiction

• "Entity" (Stargate SG-1), an episode of the television series Stargate SG-1
• The Entity, a 1981 horror film
• The Entity (Anderson), a science fiction story by Poul Anderson and John Gergen
• "The Entity" (South Park), an episode of the television series South Park
• Ion (DC Comics), Parallax (comics), and five other related beings in DC comics, associated with the Lanterns Corps of the Blackest Night storyline. See White Lantern#Entity.

Specialized uses

• In system, entity means a component.
• A DBMS entity is either a thing in the modeled world or a drawing element in an ERD.
• In SUMO, Entity is the root node and stands for the universal class of individuals.
• In VHDL, entity is the keyword for defining a new object.
• An SGML entity is an abbreviation for some expanded piece of SGML text.
• An open systems architecture entity is an active routine within a layer.
• In computer games and game engines, entity is a dynamic object such as a non-player character or item.
• In HTML, entity is a code snippet (i.e.: "®" for "Registered Trademark") which is interpreted by web browsers to display special characters. See List of XML and HTML character entity references.
• In law, a legal entity is an entity that is capable of bearing legal rights and obligations, such as a natural person or an artificial person (e.g. business entity or a corporate entity).
• In politics, entity is used as term for territorial divisions of some countries (e.g. Bosnia and Herzegovina)

See also

• Identity (disambiguation)