Entity (disambiguation)

An entity is something that exists as itself.

Entity may also refer to:

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

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