---
title: "Mention"
description: "a thing named in an observation, on its way to an entity"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/mention
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Mention

a thing named in an observation, on its way to an entity

[figure: Mention is a work at follows scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | work |
| scope | follows |
| key | the observation and where in it the thing is named |
| store | postgres |
| family | identity |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `observation` | `id` | yes |  |
| `where` | `text` | yes |  |
| `kind` | [KindOfEntity](/concepts/kindofentity) | yes | the kind the map gave it |
| `identifiers` | [Identifier](/concepts/identifier) | yes | once keyed |
| `set_aside_reason` | `text` | no |  |



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