S.S. Boz-Kourt
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S.S. Boz-Kourt was an Ottoman/Turkish steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 maritime collision with the French vessel S.S. Lotus, which led to the landmark international law case The Lotus Case before the Permanent Court of International Justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| S.S. Boz-Kourt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10259453 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S.S. Boz-Kourt Context triple: [S.S. Lotus, collisionWith, S.S. Boz-Kourt]
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A.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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B.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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C.
M/V Fairweather
M/V Fairweather is a high-speed catamaran ferry that operated in Alaska’s Marine Highway System, providing fast passenger and vehicle service between coastal communities.
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D.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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E.
M/V Issaquah
M/V Issaquah is a Washington State Ferries passenger and vehicle ferry that serves routes in the Puget Sound region.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S.S. Boz-Kourt Target entity description: S.S. Boz-Kourt was an Ottoman/Turkish steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 maritime collision with the French vessel S.S. Lotus, which led to the landmark international law case The Lotus Case before the Permanent Court of International Justice.
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A.
M/V LeConte
M/V LeConte is an Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger and vehicle service to coastal communities in Southeast Alaska.
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B.
M/V Kennicott
M/V Kennicott is a mainline Alaska Marine Highway System ferry that provides passenger, vehicle, and cargo service to coastal communities across Alaska.
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C.
M/V Fairweather
M/V Fairweather is a high-speed catamaran ferry that operated in Alaska’s Marine Highway System, providing fast passenger and vehicle service between coastal communities.
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D.
S.S. Lotus
S.S. Lotus is the steamship at the center of the 1927 Permanent Court of International Justice case "The Lotus," a landmark decision in international law on jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas.
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E.
M/V Issaquah
M/V Issaquah is a Washington State Ferries passenger and vehicle ferry that serves routes in the Puget Sound region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ottoman ship
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Turkish ship ⓘ merchant vessel ⓘ steamship ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
international law
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law of the sea ⓘ |
| collisionDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| collisionLocation | high seas ⓘ |
| collisionWith | S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
| consequenceOfCollision | loss of life of persons on board ⓘ |
| country |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ |
| court | Permanent Court of International Justice ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| event | collision with S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
| flagAtTimeOfCollision | Turkey ⓘ |
| historicalContext | transition from Ottoman Empire to Republic of Turkey ⓘ |
| jurisdictionIssue | criminal jurisdiction over incidents on the high seas ⓘ |
| legalCase |
France v. Turkey (Lotus)
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linked to:
France v. Turkey
The Lotus Case ⓘ |
| legalSignificance |
central to development of the Lotus principle in international law
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triggered international dispute between France and Turkey ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1926 maritime collision with S.S. Lotus
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involvement in the Lotus Case ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Ottoman/Turkish commercial interests ⓘ |
| propulsion | steam-powered ⓘ |
| relatedCaseName |
The Case of the S.S. Lotus
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linked to:
The Case of the S.S. "Lotus"
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| relatedPrinciple |
freedom of the high seas
ⓘ
territorial jurisdiction of states ⓘ |
| shipType | cargo ship ⓘ |
| stateInvolvedInDispute |
France
ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ |
| statusAfterCollision | sank ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfService | early 20th century ⓘ |
| victimShipInCase | The Lotus Case ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: S.S. Boz-Kourt Description of subject: S.S. Boz-Kourt was an Ottoman/Turkish steamship best known for its involvement in the 1926 maritime collision with the French vessel S.S. Lotus, which led to the landmark international law case The Lotus Case before the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Referenced by (3)
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