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Lost

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ232244 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lost or LOST may refer to getting lost, or to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Television

Lost (TV series), a 2004 American drama series about people who become stranded on a mysterious island

Lost (2001 TV series), a short-lived American and British reality series

Lost (South Korean TV series), a 2021 South Korean series

"Lost" (The Bill), a 1985 episode

"Lost" (Shameless), an episode of the American TV series Shameless

"Lost" (Stargate Universe), an episode of science fiction series Stargate Universe

"Lost", an episode of Unleashed!

"Lost", an episode of the Canadian documentary TV series Mayday

"Lost", an episode of Disney's So Weird

"The Lost" (Class), an episode of the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off series Class

Films

Lost (1950 film), a Mexican film directed by Fernando A. Rivero

Lost (1956 film), a British thriller starring David Farrar

Lost (1983 film), an American film directed by Al Adamson

Lost! (film), a 1986 Canadian film directed by Peter Rowe

Lost (2004 film), an American thriller starring Dean Cain

The Lost (2006 film), an American psychological horror starring Marc Senter

Lost (2023 film), an Indian Hindi-language thriller film

Literature

Lost (Maguire novel), a 2001 horror/mystery novel by Gregory Maguire

Lost (Robotham novel), a 2005 Michael Robotham novel

Lost, a novel by Alice Lichtenstein

Lost: A Memoir, a 2009 memoir by Canadian author Cathy Ostlere

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, a 2006 memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Lost (Durst novel), a 2014 fantasy novel by American author Sarah Beth Durst

Music

Groups and labels

Lost (band), an Italian pop rock band

The Lost (band), an American garage rock band

Albums

Lost (8Ball album), 1998

Lost (Carpark North album), 2010

Lost (Cool Calm Pete album), 2005

Lost (Died Pretty album), 1988

Lost (Elegy album), 1995

Lost (RTZ album), 1998

Lost (Brent Faiyaz EP), 2018

Lost (Pet Shop Boys EP), 2023

Songs

"Lost" (The Badloves song), 1993

"LosT" (Bring Me The Horizon song).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lost” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lost, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2001, 2021, 1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lost, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q232244. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2001, 2021 and 1985.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lost” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.