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.
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 |
Updated 8 months ago