diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md b/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
index a1ba49f580..abbf348848 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/api-report.md
@@ -416,7 +416,6 @@ export interface EntityRefPresentation {
 
 // @public
 export interface EntityRefPresentationSnapshot {
-  entity?: Entity | undefined;
   entityRef: string;
   Icon?: IconComponent | undefined;
   primaryTitle: string;
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/EntityPresentationApi.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/EntityPresentationApi.ts
index 17f16d69a4..532fdde9a3 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/EntityPresentationApi.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/EntityPresentationApi.ts
@@ -49,17 +49,6 @@ export interface EntityRefPresentationSnapshot {
    * usable for example for forming a clickable link to the entity.
    */
   entityRef: string;
-  /**
-   * The entity that this snapshot represents.
-   *
-   * @remarks
-   *
-   * Note that this may be a partial entity, i.e. it may not contain all of the
-   * fields that the kind at hand normally contains, since the input to the
-   * representation renderer might have been a partial entity. So be careful
-   * when accessing fields on this.
-   */
-  entity?: Entity | undefined;
   /**
    * A string that can be used as a plain representation of the entity, for
    * example in a header or a link.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.test.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.test.ts
index e875de6fd1..ea755dfebc 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.test.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: expect.anything(),
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | type | desc',
@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: expect.anything(),
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'title',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | type | desc',
@@ -81,7 +79,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: expect.anything(),
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'displayName',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | type | desc',
@@ -96,7 +93,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           metadata: { name: 'test' },
         } as Entity),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: expect.anything(),
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -108,7 +104,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
       expect(
         defaultEntityPresentation({ metadata: 7 } as unknown as Entity),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: expect.anything(),
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
         primaryTitle: 'unknown',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
@@ -120,7 +115,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
   describe('string ref given', () => {
     it('happy path', () => {
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation('component:default/test')).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -132,7 +126,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           defaultKind: 'X',
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'component:test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -144,7 +137,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           defaultNamespace: 'X',
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'default/test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -154,7 +146,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
 
     it('works without throwing on malformed and shortened refs', () => {
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation('')).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
         primaryTitle: 'unknown',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
@@ -162,7 +153,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
       });
 
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation('name')).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/name',
         primaryTitle: 'name',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/name',
@@ -180,7 +170,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           name: 'test',
         }),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -195,7 +184,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         ),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'component:test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -210,7 +198,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         ),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'default/test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -227,7 +214,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
           },
         ),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
         primaryTitle: 'default/test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
@@ -235,7 +221,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
       });
 
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation('')).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
         primaryTitle: 'unknown',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
@@ -247,7 +232,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
   describe('entirely invalid input type given', () => {
     it('sad path', () => {
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation(null as unknown as Entity)).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
         primaryTitle: 'unknown',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
@@ -256,7 +240,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
 
       expect(defaultEntityPresentation(undefined as unknown as Entity)).toEqual(
         {
-          entity: undefined,
           entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
           primaryTitle: 'unknown',
           secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
@@ -267,7 +250,6 @@ describe('defaultEntityPresentation', () => {
       expect(
         defaultEntityPresentation(Symbol.for('Prince') as unknown as Entity),
       ).toEqual({
-        entity: undefined,
         entityRef: 'unknown:default/unknown',
         primaryTitle: 'unknown',
         secondaryTitle: 'unknown:default/unknown',
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.ts b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.ts
index ab9ea68060..eacb659062 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-react/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/defaultEntityPresentation.ts
@@ -70,13 +70,6 @@ export function defaultEntityPresentation(
     (kind && DEFAULT_ICONS[kind.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US')]) ||
     UNKNOWN_KIND_ICON;
 
-  const entity: Entity | undefined =
-    typeof entityOrRef === 'object' &&
-    entityOrRef !== null &&
-    'metadata' in entityOrRef
-      ? entityOrRef
-      : undefined;
-
   const entityRef: string = stringifyEntityRef({
     kind: kind || 'unknown',
     namespace: namespace || DEFAULT_NAMESPACE,
@@ -98,7 +91,6 @@ export function defaultEntityPresentation(
     .join(' | ');
 
   return {
-    entity,
     entityRef,
     primaryTitle: primary,
     secondaryTitle: secondary || undefined,
diff --git a/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.test.ts b/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.test.ts
index eb20b20f9f..42ff777cbd 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.test.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.test.ts
@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ describe('DefaultEntityPresentationApi', () => {
     expect(api.forEntity(entity)).toEqual({
       snapshot: {
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
-        entity: entity,
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | service',
         Icon: expect.anything(),
@@ -120,25 +119,12 @@ describe('DefaultEntityPresentationApi', () => {
     ).resolves.toEqual([
       {
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
-        entity: undefined,
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test',
         Icon: expect.anything(),
       },
       {
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
-        entity: {
-          apiVersion: 'backstage.io/v1alpha1',
-          kind: 'Component',
-          metadata: {
-            etag: 'something',
-            name: 'test',
-            namespace: 'default',
-          },
-          spec: {
-            type: 'service',
-          },
-        },
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | service',
         Icon: expect.anything(),
@@ -151,18 +137,6 @@ describe('DefaultEntityPresentationApi', () => {
     ).resolves.toEqual([
       {
         entityRef: 'component:default/test',
-        entity: {
-          apiVersion: 'backstage.io/v1alpha1',
-          kind: 'Component',
-          metadata: {
-            etag: 'something',
-            name: 'test',
-            namespace: 'default',
-          },
-          spec: {
-            type: 'service',
-          },
-        },
         primaryTitle: 'test',
         secondaryTitle: 'component:default/test | service',
         Icon: expect.anything(),
diff --git a/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.ts b/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.ts
index 24b9b744a0..91e5b575ff 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog/src/apis/EntityPresentationApi/DefaultEntityPresentationApi.ts
@@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ export class DefaultEntityPresentationApi implements EntityPresentationApi {
                 subscriber.next({
                   ...output.snapshot,
                   entityRef: entityRef,
-                  entity: newEntity,
                 });
               }
             })
@@ -265,7 +264,6 @@ export class DefaultEntityPresentationApi implements EntityPresentationApi {
       snapshot: {
         ...rendered,
         entityRef: entityRef,
-        entity: entity,
       },
       update$: observable,
     };
diff --git a/plugins/user-settings/src/components/General/UserSettingsIdentityCard.tsx b/plugins/user-settings/src/components/General/UserSettingsIdentityCard.tsx
index a398877ce9..d8d3f677aa 100644
--- a/plugins/user-settings/src/components/General/UserSettingsIdentityCard.tsx
+++ b/plugins/user-settings/src/components/General/UserSettingsIdentityCard.tsx
@@ -33,19 +33,13 @@ const Contents = () => {
       <Grid item xs={12}>
         <Typography variant="subtitle1" gutterBottom>
           User Entity:{' '}
-          <EntityRefLinks
-            entityRefs={[backstageIdentity.userEntityRef]}
-            getTitle={ref => ref}
-          />
+          <EntityRefLinks entityRefs={[backstageIdentity.userEntityRef]} />
         </Typography>
       </Grid>
       <Grid item xs={12}>
         <Typography variant="subtitle1">
           Ownership Entities:{' '}
-          <EntityRefLinks
-            entityRefs={backstageIdentity.ownershipEntityRefs}
-            getTitle={ref => ref}
-          />
+          <EntityRefLinks entityRefs={backstageIdentity.ownershipEntityRefs} />
         </Typography>
       </Grid>
     </Grid>