entity

noun6

1. •
   That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

   • The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity. — 1951
2. •
   Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
3. •
   A spirit, ghost, or the like.

   • [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities. — 1936
4. •
   An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
5. •
   The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
6. •
   The state or quality of being or existence.

   • The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.