In an update a few months back the way the entity selection dialogue works seems to have broken. When you type a few letters to find the entity you want, then click/tap on it to select it, instead of actually selecting it it just uses the few letters you typed as the value. 9 times out of 10 you have to delete it and then do it again for it to work. It’s driving me up the wall.
Yes, I think we created the issues within minutes of each other 
. I did search before creating it.