diff --git a/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php b/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
index e320947..2f69de3 100644
--- a/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
+++ b/core/modules/rest/src/Plugin/rest/resource/EntityResource.php
@@ -227,8 +227,6 @@ protected function getCastedValueFromFieldItemList(FieldItemListInterface $field
    * @throws \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException
    */
   public function patch(EntityInterface $original_entity, EntityInterface $entity = NULL) {
-    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\FieldableEntityInterface|\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $original_entity */
-    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\FieldableEntityInterface|\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity */
     if ($entity == NULL) {
       throw new BadRequestHttpException('No entity content received.');
     }
diff --git a/core/modules/rest/tests/src/Functional/EntityResource/EntityResourceTestBase.php b/core/modules/rest/tests/src/Functional/EntityResource/EntityResourceTestBase.php
index 973f5b9..7c5cc43 100644
--- a/core/modules/rest/tests/src/Functional/EntityResource/EntityResourceTestBase.php
+++ b/core/modules/rest/tests/src/Functional/EntityResource/EntityResourceTestBase.php
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ public function testGet() {
     // fields does not matter (at least not yet). That's why we only compare the
     // normalized entity with the decoded response: it's comparing PHP arrays
     // instead of strings.
-    $this->assertEquals($this->getExpectedNormalizedEntity(), $this->serializer->decode((string) $response->getBody(), static::$format));
+    $this->assertSame($this->getExpectedNormalizedEntity(), $this->serializer->decode((string) $response->getBody(), static::$format));
     // Not only assert the normalization, also assert deserialization of the
     // response results in the expected object.
     $unserialized = $this->serializer->deserialize((string) $response->getBody(), get_class($this->entity), static::$format);