diff --git a/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb b/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
index 00a47e231..72564c94d 100644
--- a/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/jsonld_helper.rb
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ module JsonLdHelper
     unless id
       json = fetch_resource_without_id_validation(uri, on_behalf_of)
 
-      return if !json.is_a?(Hash) || unsupported_uri_scheme?(json['id'])
+      return if !json.is_a?(Hash) || json['id'].blank? || unsupported_uri_scheme?(json['id'])
 
       uri = json['id']
     end