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missing person

Person whose whereabouts cannot be established

EntityQ388505

Also known as missing persons · missing people

Subclass of: missing entity
, individual
Part of: missing persons database

Overview

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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, or death in a location where they cannot be found, or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. Criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases.

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46 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Location: unknown nature of statement: official
Properties for this type: date of disappearance
significant event use with property value: disappearance · use with qualifier: location, age of subject at event
NCMEC person ID
Partially coincident with: fugitive
victim
dead human
Has immediate cause: unexplained disappearance
Followed by: finding nature of statement: often
declared dead nature of statement: often
found dead nature of statement: often

On other databases

30 identifiers linking missing person across the web's reference databases

Data quality

statements

15%

externally sourced

Source last edited October 30, 2026. AIDb refreshes this page daily.

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AIDb. (2026). missing person (Q388505). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/missing-person-Q388505