entitiesthat

Entitiesthat is a coined term that describes two related ideas in linguistics and data modeling: a natural-language phrase and a hypothetical single-token representation used in domain-specific contexts. In its most basic sense, it refers to the construction formed by the noun entity followed by the relative pronoun that, which introduces a defining clause.

In natural language, the sequence entities that is pervasive and forms a restrictive relative clause: it specifies which entities are being discussed, as in “the entities that satisfy the criteria.” The phrase functions to limit a broader set to a subset with a particular property. Because it is a common grammatical pattern, entitiesthat is often used in illustrative examples to demonstrate how qualifiers refine meaning.

In computational and data-modeling contexts, entitiesthat can be treated as a conceptual operator or pattern that selects entities meeting a given predicate. It may also appear as a concatenated token in identifiers or query languages to denote a filtered collection of entities. When used in this sense, it helps express logical constraints, such as entitiesthat have a numeric attribute above a threshold or entitiesthat originate from a specific source.

Examples of the idea include entitiesthat are located in a city, entitiesthat have revenue above a value, or entitiesthat satisfy a particular property. The term highlights the intersection of language-driven specification and data-driven filtering, where a defining clause narrows a set of entities to those that fit a defined condition.

See also: entity, relative clause, knowledge graph, query language, predicate.