In my current project, I find my self making factories, but for two very distinct reasons:

Reason #1: To assist my IoC container if a particular class needs an parameter that is only known when the class is created. This might also include reading data from a config.

Reason #2: The creation of an entity needs complex validation logic, and I want to keep this logic out of my constructor so it stays simple.

Furthermore, when I create a factory for reason #2, I find myself tempted to put deletion logic there as well, as the deletion of the entity is often complex and beyond the scope of the entity being deleted; however, one would be hard pressed to call a class with a deletion method a factory.

When I create a factory for reason #2, is it really correct to call it a factory? Is there a better term for this kind of class? Is there preexisting terminology to describe these two very distinct cases?