An helper table is used in node_views_data hook: "views_entity_node" for having the links there:
// Define some fields based upon views_handler_field_entity in the entity
// table so they can be re-used with other query backends.
// @see views_handler_field_entity
// Define the base group of this table. Fields that don't have a group defined
// will go into this field by default.It seems this is legacy from D7 and should be moved back to node.
Related: #1986606: Convert the comments administration screen to a view