Question

What is the difference between entity type and entity instance? Explain with examples?

Answer 1

Answer:

Entity: Entity is a concept to abstractly represent all instances of a group of similar “things”.

Entity Type: It is collection of entity having common attribute.

Entity Instance: An entity instance is a single occurrence of an entity.

So to clarify your confusion, entity is a more abstract or general way of referring to an entity instance or a type.And yes EMPLOYEE is an entity type.