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title: "Entity"
type: "glossary-term"
category: "Knowledge graph"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/glossary/knowledge-graph/entity"
updated: "2026-07-09"
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# Entity

**An entity is a real-world actor in the graph - an organization or person - that tools can be linked to, such as the company that maintains a repo.**

An **entity** is a distinct real-world thing the graph tracks beyond individual tools - typically an organization or a person. Linking tools to entities lets you see everything one company backs, or which projects an author maintains.

Entity resolution (matching a repo owner to a canonical entity) is what prevents "OpenAI", "openai", and "OpenAI, Inc." from being treated as three different things.

## In GraphCanon

GraphCanon keeps an entity registry and links tools to the organizations behind them, so you can browse an entity hub and see its whole footprint in the graph.

## See also

- [Browse entities](/entities)

## Related terms

- [Canonical](/glossary/knowledge-graph/canonical.md)
- [Node](/glossary/knowledge-graph/node.md)

[Knowledge graph](/glossary/knowledge-graph.md) · [All glossary terms](/glossary.md)

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon`](/api/graphcanon)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

_GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_