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How to Change the Type of an Entity
It may happen that in either manual cataloguing or automated data processing an entity is given the wrong type, for example a corporate body could have been marked as a place or similar). If you come across such a case it is necessary to correct the CT entry accordingly. However, this cannot be done simply by changing the entity type setting in the form-based editor, since this would work only for new record - once a record has been saved and given an id, the value of entity type field is being ignored.
To change the entity type for an entry it is necessary to create a new record first and then redirect the old/wrong one to the new one.
For example: