---
title: "Entity"
description: "a thing of the market that lasts"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/entity
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Entity

a thing of the market that lasts

[figure: Entity is a entity at shared scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | entity |
| scope | shared |
| key | decided; never made from an attribute |
| store | postgres |
| family | identity |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kind` | [KindOfEntity](/concepts/kindofentity) | yes |  |
| `name` | `text` | yes | the display name, itself a claim |
| `identifiers` | [Identifier](/concepts/identifier) | yes | every key it ever had |
| `plane` | [Plane](/concepts/plane) | yes | kept once, or a tenant's |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Entity directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.