natural person

real human being as opposed to a non-human legal person
Intangible legal_term_or_legal_concept Q154954
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Summary

natural person is a legal term or legal concept[1]. It draws 7,241 Wikipedia views per month (legal term or legal concept category, ranking #79 of 484).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: legal form[3], class of person[4], type of physical object[5]
  • Subclass of: legal person[6], anatomically modern human[7]
  • Said to be the same as: person[8]
  • Main subject: human[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11]
  • Equivalent class: http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person[12], http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human[13], http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person[14], http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#natural-person[15], http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#NaturalPerson[16]
  • Different from: juridical person[17], unincorporated entity[18], separate legal entity[19], Magánszemély[20]
  • P14541: ZorP7[21]

Why It Matters

natural person has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . PROV-O: The PROV Ontology. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q141247525. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Q141163319. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . DOLCE+DnS Ultralite. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', 'el',
    Sitelink count → 62
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    Subclass of → legal person, anatomically modern human
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#NaturalPerson"
  2. 17d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → legal person, anatomically modern human
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    The law dictionary entry → natural-person
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ckb', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', 'el',
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DOLCE-Lite.owl#natural-person"
  3. 26d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person"
  4. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Person, Moving to Q141447674"
  5. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://www.ontospace.uni-bremen.de/ontology/stable/GUM-3.owl#Person"
  6. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person, http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human, http://gedcomx.org/v1/Person +2
    Item operated → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/upper#Human"
  7. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → legal person, anatomically modern human
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: anatomically modern human"
  8. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept, legal form, class of person +1
    P14541 → ZorP7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  9. 16w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept, legal form, class of person +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: class of person"
  10. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0216263-fyzicke-osoby
    Aliases → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 4711695
    Subclass of → legal person, anatomically modern human
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0216263-fyzicke-osoby, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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