14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the operation further comprises: receiving, from the requesting entity, a request to view the abstract record for a selected instance of the model entity included the search results; retrieving data for at least one of the logical fields in the set of logical fields related to the model entity for the selected instance; populating a copy of the abstract record with the retrieved data; and returning the copy of the abstract record to the requesting entity.
13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the set of the logical fields used to access data related to the model entity are identified by an abstract record, wherein the abstract record identifies a hierarchy for the set of logical fields, and wherein the logical field used to access the identifier for the model entity is placed at the root of the hierarchy.