In Hierarchy Manager, an

entity

is any object, person, place, organization, or other thing that has meaning and can be acted upon in your database. Examples include a specific person’s name, a specific checking account number, a specific company, a specific address, and so on. Information about a Hierarchy Manager entity is stored in an

entity base object

, which you create and configure in the Hub Console. An

entity type

is a logical classification of one or more entities. Examples include doctors, checking accounts, banks, and so on. All entities with the same entity type are stored in the same entity object.