diff --git a/.changeset/small-hornets-dress.md b/.changeset/small-hornets-dress.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6d6817977d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/small-hornets-dress.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-common': patch
+---
+
+Moved the `CatalogEntityDocument` to `@backstage/plugin-catalog-common` and deprecated the export from `@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend`
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
index c59318d0af..a24c6d4f67 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/DefaultCatalogCollator.ts
@@ -29,14 +29,11 @@ import {
   CatalogClient,
   GetEntitiesRequest,
 } from '@backstage/catalog-client';
-import { catalogEntityReadPermission } from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-common';
-import { CatalogEntityDocument } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
+import {
+  catalogEntityReadPermission,
+  CatalogEntityDocument,
+} from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-common';
 
-/**
- * @public
- * @deprecated Upgrade to a more recent `@backstage/search-backend-node` and
- * use `DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory` instead.
- */
 export class DefaultCatalogCollator {
   protected discovery: PluginEndpointDiscovery;
   protected locationTemplate: string;
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
index 93ff0b8b32..bd54e33e59 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
 
 export { DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
 export type { DefaultCatalogCollatorFactoryOptions } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
-export type { CatalogEntityDocument } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
+
+/** @public @deprecated use the export from `plugin-catalog-common` instead */
+export type { CatalogEntityDocument } from '@backstage/plugin-catalog-common';
 
 /**
  * todo(backstage/techdocs-core): stop exporting this in a future release.