Class: Entity

Anything that exists, has existed, or will exist.

URI: vaspec:Entity

Parents

• is_a: Element - The base definition for all elements that comprise the model (classes, complex data types, value sets)

Children

• Activity - An action or set of actions performed by an agent, that occurs over a period of time. Activities may use, generate, modify, move, or destroy one or more entities.
• Affiliation - A relationship between an Agent and a Group or Organization to which they belong or belonged.
• Agent - An autonomous actor (person, organization, or computational agent) that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent’s activity.
• Descriptor - An object that wraps a value object in order to transfer additional, non-definitional information about it.
• Gene - A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions.
• GeneticCondition - A disease, or a set of one or more co-occurring phenotypes, controlled by genetic factors with a defined inheritance pattern.
• InformationEntity - An abstract (non-physical) entity that is about something.
• Proposition - An abstract entity representing the sharable meaning that can be put forth as true in a Statement made by an Agent.
• SequenceLocation - A specified subsequence of a reference Sequence. The reference is typically a chromosome, transcript, or protein sequence.
• TherapeuticIntervention - A type of treatment administered/prescribed to a patient to prevent, ameliorate, or cure a medical condition.
• Variation - A representation of the state of one or more biomolecules.

Referenced by Class

• Activity Activity➞hadInput _0..* Entity
• Activity Activity➞hadOutput _0..* Entity
• Descriptor Descriptor➞valueObject _0..1 Entity
• InformationEntity InformationEntity➞isAbout _0..* Entity
• Proposition Proposition➞subject _1..1 Entity
• Statement Statement➞subject _1..1 Entity
• StudyResult StudyResult➞focus _0..* Entity

Attributes

Own

• Entity➞localId _1..1
  • Description: The logical identifier of the entity in the system of record, e.g. a UUID. This 'id' is unique within a given system. The identified entity may have a different 'id' in a different system.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞globalIdentifier _0..*
  • Description: A business identifier or accession number for the entity, typically as provided by an external system or authority, that is globally unique and persists across implementing systems.
  • Range: Identifier
• Entity➞type _1..1
  • Description: The schema class that is instantiated by the data object. Must be the name of a class from the VA schema.
  • Range: Class
• Entity➞label _0..1
  • Description: A primary name for the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞alternativeLabel _0..*
  • Description: An alternative name for the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞description _0..1
  • Description: A free text description of the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞hasURL _0..*
  • Description: The URL/web address of a digital resource representing the entity, or providing information about it.
  • Range: Url
• Entity➞reference _0..*
  • Description: A document or other Information Entity that describes the Entity.
  • Range: InformationEntity
• Entity➞xref _0..*
  • Description: A cross-reference to database identifier(s) representing the same or a closely related entity or concept as the Entity.
  • Range: String
• Entity➞thisRecordMeta _0..1
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata about the present record/data object (as opposed to provenance information about the real world entity this record/data object represents).
  • Range: RecordMetadata
• Entity➞sourceRecordMeta _0..*
  • Description: A reusable structure that encapsulates provenance metadata that applies to an upstream record/data objdct about the Entity, from which content of the present record was derived.
  • Range: RecordMetadata

Inherited from Element:

• Element➞extensionElement _0..*
  • Description: A key-value data structure that allows definition of custom fields to capture information not directly supported by the VA specification.
  • Range: Extension

Other properties

Aliases:		Thing
Comments:		Entity is the root class of ‘core’ classes model - those that have identifiers and other general metadata like labels, xrefs, urls, descriptions, etc. All core classes descend from and inherit its attributes.
Exact Mappings:		BFO:0000001