---
title: "Retrieve a provenance entity by id.  Entity types of Donor, Sample and Datasets."
method: GET
path: "/entities/{id}"
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# Retrieve a provenance entity by id.  Entity types of Donor, Sample and Datasets.

`GET /entities/{id}`

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Response `200`

The entity details

- object

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid or misformatted entity identifier was provided.
- `401` — The user's bearer token has expired or the user did not supply a valid token.
- `403` — The user is not authorized to retrieve the referenced entity.
- `404` — The target entity could not be found.
- `500` — An unexpected error occurred.

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[API](https://skmtc.net/hubmapconsortium/apis/hubmap-entity-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/hubmapconsortium/apis/hubmap-entity-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/hubmapconsortium/hubmap-entity-api/versions/a192f35c6b16/schema)