diff --git a/packages/catalog-client/api-report.md b/packages/catalog-client/api-report.md
index b9c9543801..416f1bc4fd 100644
--- a/packages/catalog-client/api-report.md
+++ b/packages/catalog-client/api-report.md
@@ -159,12 +159,6 @@ export interface CatalogRequestOptions {
   token?: string;
 }
 
-// @public
-export type EntitiesFilter =
-  | Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>[]
-  | Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>
-  | undefined;
-
 // @public
 export const ENTITY_STATUS_CATALOG_PROCESSING_TYPE =
   'backstage.io/catalog-processing';
@@ -235,7 +229,7 @@ export interface GetEntityAncestorsResponse {
 // @public
 export interface GetEntityFacetsRequest {
   facets: string[];
-  filter?: EntitiesFilter;
+  filter?: EntityFilterQuery;
 }
 
 // @public
@@ -261,7 +255,7 @@ export type GetPaginatedEntitiesInitialRequest =
   | {
       fields?: string[];
       limit?: number;
-      filter?: EntitiesFilter;
+      filter?: EntityFilterQuery;
       sortFields?: EntityOrderQuery;
       query?: string;
     }
diff --git a/packages/catalog-client/src/CatalogClient.ts b/packages/catalog-client/src/CatalogClient.ts
index a76a66577c..ba410beb92 100644
--- a/packages/catalog-client/src/CatalogClient.ts
+++ b/packages/catalog-client/src/CatalogClient.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ import {
   GetEntitiesByRefsResponse,
   GetPaginatedEntitiesRequest,
   GetPaginatedEntitiesResponse,
-  EntitiesFilter,
+  EntityFilterQuery,
   GetPaginatedEntitiesCursorRequest,
 } from './types/api';
 import { DiscoveryApi } from './types/discovery';
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ export class CatalogClient implements CatalogApi {
     return await response.json();
   }
 
-  private getParams(filter: EntitiesFilter = []) {
+  private getParams(filter: EntityFilterQuery = []) {
     const params: string[] = [];
     // filter param can occur multiple times, for example
     // /api/catalog/entities?filter=metadata.name=wayback-search,kind=component&filter=metadata.name=www-artist,kind=component'
diff --git a/packages/catalog-client/src/types/api.ts b/packages/catalog-client/src/types/api.ts
index 103c990783..d6aeba5d1d 100644
--- a/packages/catalog-client/src/types/api.ts
+++ b/packages/catalog-client/src/types/api.ts
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ export interface GetEntityFacetsRequest {
    * (exported from this package), which means that you assert on the existence
    * of that key, no matter what its value is.
    */
-  filter?: EntitiesFilter;
+  filter?: EntityFilterQuery;
   /**
    * Dot separated paths for the facets to extract from each entity.
    *
@@ -356,16 +356,6 @@ export type AddLocationRequest = {
   dryRun?: boolean;
 };
 
-/**
- * Used for filtering entities that match the given patterns.
- *
- * @public
- */
-export type EntitiesFilter =
-  | Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>[]
-  | Record<string, string | symbol | (string | symbol)[]>
-  | undefined;
-
 /**
  * The response type for {@link CatalogClient.addLocation}.
  *
@@ -410,7 +400,7 @@ export type GetPaginatedEntitiesInitialRequest =
   | {
       fields?: string[];
       limit?: number;
-      filter?: EntitiesFilter;
+      filter?: EntityFilterQuery;
       sortFields?: EntityOrderQuery;
       query?: string;
     }
diff --git a/packages/catalog-client/src/types/index.ts b/packages/catalog-client/src/types/index.ts
index e85b86f4af..715639e1c3 100644
--- a/packages/catalog-client/src/types/index.ts
+++ b/packages/catalog-client/src/types/index.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ export type {
   EntityOrderQuery,
   GetEntitiesByRefsRequest,
   GetEntitiesByRefsResponse,
-  EntitiesFilter,
   GetEntitiesRequest,
   GetEntitiesResponse,
   GetEntityAncestorsRequest,