I agree that “named entity” makes more sense. I’ll pass that edit suggestion along to the folks who maintain the page.

 

Here is a blog post from 2011 where we talk about remodeling VIAF into a coherent hub-and-spoke model revolving around the entity itself.

 

http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2011/04/changes-to-viafs-rdf.html

 

Jeff