diff --git a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
index f99fbed..55b6e0f 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
+++ b/meta-phosphor/conf/distro/include/phosphor-defaults.inc
@@ -160,13 +160,6 @@
     "phosphor-ipmi-sensor-inventory-native"
 
 # The phosphor-host-ipmid application is data-driven and requires an input
-# yaml of entity association record metadata.
-# This virtual is a native recipe that provides that mapping by installing
-# configuration files in the format and native sysroot location expected by
-# the phosphor-host-ipmid build process in the native sysroot.
-PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/phosphor-ipmi-entity-config ?= "phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory-native"
-
-# The phosphor-host-ipmid application is data-driven and requires an input
 # mapping of inventory object path to the sensor number and sensor metadata.
 # This virtual is a native recipe that provides that mapping by installing
 # configuration files in the format and native sysroot location expected by
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory-native.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory-native.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index acc693e..0000000
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory-native.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-SUMMARY = "Sample entity configuration for phosphor-host-ipmid"
-PR = "r1"
-LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${PHOSPHORBASE}/COPYING.apache-2.0;md5=34400b68072d710fecd0a2940a0d1658"
-
-inherit native
-inherit phosphor-ipmi-host
-
-PROVIDES += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-entity-config"
-
-SRC_URI += "file://entity.yaml"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}"
-
-do_install() {
-        # This recipe is supposed to create an output yaml file with
-        # a sample output file.
-
-        DEST=${D}${sensor_datadir}
-        install -d ${DEST}
-        install entity.yaml ${DEST}/entity.yaml
-}
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory/entity.yaml b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/entity.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-entity-inventory/entity.yaml
rename to meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host/entity.yaml
diff --git a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host_git.bb b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host_git.bb
index 314b70f..f5606cb 100644
--- a/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host_git.bb
+++ b/meta-phosphor/recipes-phosphor/ipmi/phosphor-ipmi-host_git.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 inherit phosphor-ipmi-host
 inherit pythonnative
 
+SRC_URI += "file://entity.yaml"
+
 def ipmi_whitelists(d):
     whitelists = d.getVar(
         'VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_phosphor-ipmi-providers', True) or ''
@@ -33,7 +35,6 @@
 DEPENDS += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-inventory-sel"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-fru-merge-config"
 DEPENDS += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-sensor-inventory"
-DEPENDS += "virtual/phosphor-ipmi-entity-config"
 DEPENDS += "boost"
 DEPENDS += "sdeventplus"
 
@@ -74,7 +75,6 @@
         SENSOR_YAML_GEN=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${sensor_datadir}/sensor.yaml \
         INVSENSOR_YAML_GEN=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${sensor_datadir}/invsensor.yaml \
         FRU_YAML_GEN=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${config_datadir}/fru_config.yaml \
-        ENTITY_YAML_GEN=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}${sensor_datadir}/entity.yaml \
         "
 EXTRA_OECONF_append = " \
         WHITELIST_CONF="${WHITELIST_CONF}" \
@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@
 SOFT_FMT = "../${SOFT_SVC}:${SOFT_TGTFMT}.requires/${SOFT_SVC}"
 SYSTEMD_LINK_${PN} += "${@compose_list_zip(d, 'SOFT_FMT', 'OBMC_HOST_INSTANCES')}"
 
+do_replace_entity_default() {
+    # The in-repo provided default is tailored to testing the ipmid code.
+    # Replace it with a reasonable default for users.
+    cp entity.yaml ${S}/scripts/entity-example.yaml
+}
+
+do_patch_append() {
+    bb.build.exec_func('do_replace_entity_default', d)
+}
+
 #Collect all hardcoded sensor yamls from different recipes and
 #merge all of them with sensor.yaml.
 python do_merge_sensors () {