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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def start_cmd(cmd, descr, data):
 """Retain details about starting a command, returning a command identifier. """

    if data and "provenance" in data:
        entity_id = tz.get_in(["provenance", "entity"], data)