I believe it's worth mentioning EF is capable of detecting replacements of owned entities.

[voroninp]

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Description

If an instance of an owned entity is replaced with a new instance that has the same primary key, EF will detect the replacement and issue an update.

In contrast, if this were a regular navigation property, EF would raise an error, indicating an attempt to track multiple entities with the same identifier.

This highlights a significant difference in behavior between HasOne/HasMany and OwnsOne/OwnsMany.

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/owned-entities

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https://github.com/dotnet/EntityFramework.Docs/blob/main/entity-framework/core/modeling/owned-entities.md

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@AndriySvyryd