clarify when a entity is created (#22233)

* clarify when a entity is created

* Create 22233.txt

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Co-authored-by: Violet Hynes <violet.hynes@hashicorp.com>
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```release-note:improvement
docs: Clarify when a entity is created
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ internally maintains the clients who are recognized by Vault. Each client is
internally termed as an `Entity`. An entity can have multiple `Aliases`. For
example, a single user who has accounts in both GitHub and LDAP, can be mapped
to a single entity in Vault that has 2 aliases, one of type GitHub and one of
type LDAP. When a client authenticates via any of the credential backends
type LDAP. When a client authenticates successfully via any of the credential backends
(except the Token backend), Vault creates a new entity and attaches a new
alias to it, if a corresponding entity doesn't already exist. The entity identifier will
be tied to the authenticated token. When such tokens are put to use, their