a scenario: in database have table joining customers , movies together, field specifying weight of relation. eg: customersmovies | -customerid | -movieid | -weight if had first 2 fields, entity framework recognise many-to-many relationship , able call customer.movies , movie.customers. third field, relationship broken. ideally, love able go customer.movies[0].weight or similar return joining parameter. if not supported, still many-to-many relationship other functions. is supported within entity framework? create 2 tables, customersmovies (which joins 2 tables) , customermovieweights table specifies weight given customer , movie, redundant data isn't ideal. kind regards, harry if dropped weight column junction table, need map customers , movies table. if not, need map 3 tables: customer , customermovies , movies . but of course, not able this: var customer = ctx.customers.first(); var customermovies = customer.movies; you have this: var ...