In Eloquent you are taught to handle relationships between entities. Post <- Comment, or Comment <- User. In this situations you user hasMany, manyToMany or hasOne relationships.
How do you handle the situation when your related data is not an actual "entity".
For example, I might have a color_id column that maps values from a tables named "colors". I know it could be done with entities, but it feels a little bit overhead to build a eloquent model for color tables.
Bottom question, how do you map "dictionary tables" for various fields of your model.