Question

At UCF, everyone associated with the university is a Person. Each Person has a specific role they fulfill, Student, Faculty, Staff, and Maintenance. Based on the fact that the ER Model has the power of expressing database entities in a conceptual hierarchical manner, referencing Student, what would the entity be considered as?

Answer 1

The answer is generalization.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Database Studies, generalization is an approach in which two or more entities of lower-level amalgamate to create a higher-level entity, only if they have one or more attributes in common.

In this case, Student is a lower-level entity (along with Faculty, Staff, etc.) and Person is the higher-level entity, which is formed by the combination of Student and any (or every) of the other low-level entities.