1. A method for management entity operations, the method comprising: parsing, by a management entity, a request to collect data for an entity in a communications system, the parsing to produce a parsed request and dependency information related to the request; generating, by the management entity, sets of model elements in accordance with context tokens and content tokens derived from the parsed request, the content tokens including extrinsic metadata and intrinsic metadata of the parsed request; generating, by the management entity, a platform-neutral description of results of the request from an optimized graph derived from the sets of model elements; executing, by the management entity, the request to collect the data as requested; and storing, by the management entity, the data as collected.