If the specified entity has been already appended to the model, the method returns the existing entity's identifier; If the specified entity belongs to another model, the method returns a null identifier (the isNull() method of the identifier object returns true). If populated entity extent folder(s) for appended instance type and all its supertypes exist(s) within a model, the instance will be added in all these folders, so all active entity extent aggregates and iterators will become unavailable.