Allow to set a display name for an entity in a card that applies only to that card

First I should say that I’m not sure if maybe I’m misunderstanding how to name entities. But I am finding myself often in this problematic situation:

I often reference the same entity in different cards (perhaps in different dashboards). For example, some garden lights which can be in multiple locations, e.g path lights.

It is nice to use an “entities” card for this, because they can all be displayed in the same card, and can be toggled all together or individually. In addition, I want to use only one of the light entities in another card, e.g. the path lights. So the problem is what to use for the friendly name. Like this:

Do I call it “Garden Lights (Path)”, so it works nice in the first image above? But then it doesn’t work nice in the second image above.

Or, do I rename the friendly name to be simply “Path”? This makes it work nicely in the second case, but it renames for ALL cards, even for cases where “Path” doesn’t provide any context:

I suppose I could get around this by making a whole load of helpers. But I think the best solution would be to allow to simply set a “display name” or something when editing the individual cards, which would only change the display name for that card (and not all other cards where it is used). And avoid changing the global “friendly name” (as I’m doing above).

This can be done already, but you need to take control over the dashboard and edit the card showing the entity. You don’t edit the entity name itself.

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Ah yes I see now! I was clicking the entity itself (without editing the card). This is what I was looking for.

Many thanks!