These are not boot entries, but identifiers assigned to a particular file system — UUID stands for Universally Unique ID. When a drive is formatted into one or more partitions, you need to create a file system for each of the partitions. For each of these, a new identifier is created. That's what you're seeing with the blkid and similar commands.
Which command to use depends on what you want to achieve. A lot of commands output similar or related information, use whichever gets the job done faster.