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Entity

nounid 2469·updated May 9, 2026
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A legal entity or management operating model of any size established for a particular purpose. A legal entity may, for example, be a business enterprise, a not-for-profit organization, a government body, or an academic institution. The management operating model may follow product or service lines, divisions, or operating units, with geographic markets providing for further subdivisions or aggregations of performance.

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Organization100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Entities
possessive
Entity's
pluralpossessive
Entities'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 23 sensesview framework →
§1
Either a subject (an active element that operates on information or the system state) or an object (a passive element that contains or receives information).
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
An active element in an open system.
§3 · sense_3_pending_review
Any participant in an authentication exchange; such a participant may be human or nonhuman, and may take the role of a claimant and/or verifier.
NIST SP 800-271 senseview framework →
§1
Either a subject (an active element that operates on information or the system state) or an object (a passive element that contains or receives information).
FIPS PUB 1961 senseview framework →
§1
Any participant in an authentication exchange; such a participant may be human or nonhuman, and may take the role of a claimant and/or verifier.
FIPS PUB 1881 senseview framework →
§1
An active element in an open system.
Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
TSP Section 1001 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
A legal entity or management operating model of any size established for a particular purpose. A legal entity may, for example, be a business enterprise, a not-for-profit organization, a government body, or an academic institution. The management operating model may follow product or service lines, divisions, or operating units, with geographic markets providing for further subdivisions or aggregations of performance.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
AICPA Privacy Management Framework1 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
An organization that collects, uses, retains and discloses PI.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Either a subject (an active element that operates on information or the system state) or an object (a passive element that contains or receives information).
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

broaderGeneric