---
title: "EntitySurface"
description: "every identifier it ever had, every account, everything it published, every thread, community and gathering, and every connection"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/entitysurface
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# EntitySurface

every identifier it ever had, every account, everything it published, every thread, community and gathering, and every connection

[figure: EntitySurface is a view at none scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | view |
| scope | none |
| key | none |
| store | none |
| family | harness |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `entity` | [Entity](/concepts/entity) | yes |  |
| `identifiers` | [Identifier](/concepts/identifier) | yes |  |
| `accounts` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `published` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `communities` | `[id]` | yes |  |
| `connections` | [Connection](/concepts/connection) | yes |  |
| `claims` | [Claim](/concepts/claim) | yes |  |
| `hypotheses` | `[id]` | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
- [`/v1/read/entity`](/reference/read/entity) returns it