This statement should be taken with some care. Entanglement entropy is a small correction compared to the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy if the UV cutoff 1∕𝜖 is, for example, on the order of a few GeV (energy scale of the standard model). However, the two entropies are of the same order if the cutoff is at the Planck scale. I thank ’t Hooft for his comments on this point.