Quick Overview:
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 for fraud.
In the Dashboard:
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:
- Risk - risk score
- Media - attachments added by agents
- Instruments - related instruments
- Verifications - KYC results
- Rule Silencing - Rules where entity should be ignored
- Custom Profile - Additional information
- 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 | jsmith47@company.com |
| phone_number | The entity phone number | +14159627132 |
| address | The entity address | 66 California Ave, San Francisco, CA 95103, USA |