diff --git a/src/caosadvancedtools/models/parser.py b/src/caosadvancedtools/models/parser.py
index 3cc370f4908ad87907a100a69d4122053b88f8b5..5848a5e786cb975df06ab5ae5c439ce55d50bb97 100644
--- a/src/caosadvancedtools/models/parser.py
+++ b/src/caosadvancedtools/models/parser.py
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ def parse_model_from_json_schema(filename: str, top_level_recordtype: bool = Tru
     # @review Daniel Hornung 2022-02-18
     parser = JsonSchemaParser()
 
-    return parser.parse_model_from_json_schema(filename)
+    return parser.parse_model_from_json_schema(filename, top_level_recordtype)
 
 
 class Parser(object):
diff --git a/unittests/json-schema-models/datamodel_no_toplevel_entity.schema.json b/unittests/json-schema-models/datamodel_no_toplevel_entity.schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..d8d0369a613f97360488224f925b1f436b982429
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unittests/json-schema-models/datamodel_no_toplevel_entity.schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+    "$id": "https://my-schema-id.net",
+    "type": "object",
+    "definitions": {
+        "uuid": {
+            "type": [
+                "string",
+                "null"
+            ],
+            "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$"
+        },
+        "datetime": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "format": "date-time"
+        }
+    },
+    "properties": {
+        {
+            "title": "Dataset1",
+            "description": "Some description",
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "title": {
+                    "type": "string",
+                    "description": "full dataset title"
+                },
+                "campaign": {
+                    "type": "string",
+                    "description": "FIXME"
+                },
+                "number_prop": {
+                    "type": "number",
+                    "description": "Some float property"
+                }
+            },
+            "required": ["title", "number_prop"]
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/unittests/test_json_schema_model_parser.py b/unittests/test_json_schema_model_parser.py
index a136f9ba2ae9965978c7f1234acb16289a3ca305..adc6361c08787cee081b08984d35233cb4e8659b 100644
--- a/unittests/test_json_schema_model_parser.py
+++ b/unittests/test_json_schema_model_parser.py
@@ -356,3 +356,8 @@ def test_name_property():
     assert str(err.value).startswith(
         "The 'name' property must be string-typed, otherwise it cannot be identified with CaosDB's "
         "name property.")
+
+
+def test_no_toplevel_entity():
+    model = parse_model_from_json_schema(os.path.join(
+        FILEPATH, "datamodel_no_toplevel_entity.schema.json"), top_level_recordtype=False)