diff --git a/src/app.py b/src/app.py
index 3bf2db55..dc27e324 100644
--- a/src/app.py
+++ b/src/app.py
@@ -1327,12 +1327,12 @@ def update_entity(id):
     # Get target entity and return as a dict if exists
     entity_dict = query_target_entity(id, user_token)
 
-    json_data_dict = check_for_metadata(entity_dict.get('entity_type'), user_token)
-    verify_ubkg_properties(json_data_dict)
-
     # Normalize user provided entity_type
     normalized_entity_type = schema_manager.normalize_entity_type(entity_dict['entity_type'])
 
+    json_data_dict = check_for_metadata(normalized_entity_type, user_token)
+    verify_ubkg_properties(json_data_dict)
+
     # Note, we don't support entity level validators on entity update via PUT
     # Only entity create via POST is supported at the entity level
 
@@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ def update_entity(id):
         # Generate 'before_update_trigger' data and update the entity details in Neo4j
         merged_updated_dict = update_object_details('ENTITIES', request, normalized_entity_type, user_token, json_data_dict, entity_dict)
 
-        # Handle linkages update via `after_update_trigger` methods 
+        # Handle linkages update via `after_update_trigger` methods
         if has_direct_ancestor_uuids:
             after_update(normalized_entity_type, user_token, merged_updated_dict)
     elif normalized_entity_type == 'Upload':
diff --git a/src/schema/provenance_schema.yaml b/src/schema/provenance_schema.yaml
index 2ec438a0..5855aa2c 100644
--- a/src/schema/provenance_schema.yaml
+++ b/src/schema/provenance_schema.yaml
@@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ ACTIVITIES:
         description: "The information describing how this dataset was processed (e.g. the DAG provenance list describing the various tools used during an ingest-pipeline run to generate a derived dataset)"
         before_create_trigger: set_processing_information
         before_update_trigger: set_processing_information
+      # Allows us to set processing_information when metadata is passed in the payload
+      metadata:
+        type: json_string # dict
+        description: "The metadata returned from the processing at data submission time."
+        transient: true
+        before_update_trigger: set_processing_information
 #TODO: We will possibly create additional activity types with different attributes
 
 ####################################################################################################
diff --git a/src/schema/schema_triggers.py b/src/schema/schema_triggers.py
index bd1413b4..9ab9b45b 100644
--- a/src/schema/schema_triggers.py
+++ b/src/schema/schema_triggers.py
@@ -2194,7 +2194,8 @@ def set_processing_information(property_key, normalized_type, user_token, existi
         metadata_to_return = {}
         metadata = schema_manager.convert_str_to_data(new_data_dict['metadata'])
         metadata_to_return['dag_provenance_list'] = metadata['dag_provenance_list']
-        return property_key, metadata_to_return
+        # Need to hard set `processing_information` as this gets called when `metadata` is passed in the payload
+        return 'processing_information', metadata_to_return
     except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
         raise requests.exceptions.RequestException(e)