

ToEntity
Details

- ToEntity evaluates for Wolfram Language expressions corresponding to entities of type "Character", "Chemical", "Color", "Graph", "MathematicalFunction", "PhysicalConstant", "PhysicalQuantity" and "WolframLanguageSymbol".
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (5)
Scope (9)
"Character" (2)
"Graph" (1)
Convert an explicitly constructed graph to an entity:
Use a graph from GraphData:
"MathematicalFunction" (2)
Convert a Mathematica special function to an entity:
Convert a Mathematica special function expression to an entity:
Use ToEntity for "MathematicalFunction" entity discovery:
"PhysicalConstant" (1)
Applications (1)
Verify that all small graphs in GraphData give entities with canonical names equivalent to their standard names:
Properties & Relations (4)
For suitable graph entities, FromEntity can be used to effectively "reverse" ToEntity:
This is similar for suitable character entities:
When a GraphData standard name is known, ToEntity is equivalent to the GraphData "Entity" property:
The result of ToEntity is typically Entity["type","canonicalname"]:
The canonical name of a character entity is typically the value returned by ToCharacterCode:
Possible Issues (3)
Entities may not exist for all possible Wolfram Language objects of appropriate type:
Some inputs may have multiple representations available:
The second argument can be used to specify to which type the input should be converted:
Specifying different arguments to same symbol may result in different "MathematicalFunction" entities:
Related Guides
Text
Wolfram Research (2014), ToEntity, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToEntity.html (updated 2021).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2014. "ToEntity." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2021. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToEntity.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2014). ToEntity. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToEntity.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_toentity, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ToEntity}", year="2021", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToEntity.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_toentity, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ToEntity}, year={2021}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ToEntity.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}