Entities

Entities are individuals or businesses that engage in transactions with your organization.

Entities can be:

Name: Sarah Smith
User ID: 9547-sngfB
Business Name: JHK Corp
An ID automatically created by your company: ja-945Jgd92N

Transactions occur between two entities:

Sarah Smith sent Paul Smith 5 ETH
$25,000 USD routed from Bank Routing # 072403473 to Bank Routing # 041215016
Sarah Smith deposited $5,000 USD to SVB Bank
User jarmin04 exchanged 1 BTC with user smith29

Suspicious transactions create alerts wherein entities can be investigated.

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Note that entity searches will take at least an hour after ingestion before they are searchable!

Overview

To access information about an entity, go to the Data Explorer page and select the Entities tab:

You can use the search filter to find the entity of your choice by name or ID.

To view additional information about the entity, select it from the search results. A pane in the left side of the window will open up where you can select Go to Detail Page >.

A new page will load with the entity’s summary information:

Basic information
Related transactions
Transaction history and details
Action items (workflows, comments and tags)

The page contains tabs with additional information:

Media - attachments added by agents
Instruments - related instruments
Verifications - KYC results
Rule Silencing - Rules where entity should be ignored
Custom Profile
Network Analysis - Graphical relation to other entities
Activity Analysis - Graph of activity
Link Analysis - List of relation to phones, addresses, IPs, and instruments

Data Structure

These are some of the fields that describe an entity in the Unit21 system:

Field	Description	Example
entity_id	The unique identifier for an entity, as defined in your system	`Corp-356-agh`
entity_type	The type of user in your system. Must be either user or business	`USER`
entity_subtype	Extra information about how your organization classifies the entity	`contractor`
status	Status of the object on your system	`active`
first_name / middle_name / last_name	Full name of the entity	`John Matt Smith`
day_of_birth / month_of_birth / year_of_birth	DOB of the entity	`23 12 1990`
gender	Gender of the entity	`male`
ssn	Social security number of the entity	`123-45-6789`
business_name	The registered name of the business	`Acme`
corporate_tax_id	The TIN/EIN of the business	`11-222-3333`
email_address	The entity email address	`[email protected]`
phone_number	The entity phone number	`+14159627132`
address	The entity address	`66 California Ave, San Francisco, CA 95103, USA`