Boz-Kourt
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Boz-Kourt was a Turkish vessel involved in the 1926 S.S. Lotus maritime collision case that became a landmark in international law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boz-Kourt canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10259488 — 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: Boz-Kourt Context triple: [French steamship Lotus, collisionWith, Boz-Kourt]
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A.
Bohan
Bohan is a given name that serves as a variant form of the name Bowen.
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B.
Bohan
Bohan is a small village in southern Belgium known for its scenic location along the Semois River near the French border.
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C.
Bohooth
Bohooth is a metro station on Cairo Metro Line 2 serving passengers in the Greater Cairo area.
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D.
Boz
Boz is the stage name of American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Boz Scaggs, known for his blend of rock, blues, and soul music.
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E.
Kashmore
Kashmore is a town in Pakistan’s Sindh province that serves as a regional hub near the Guddu Barrage on the Indus River.
- 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: Boz-Kourt Target entity description: Boz-Kourt was a Turkish vessel involved in the 1926 S.S. Lotus maritime collision case that became a landmark in international law.
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A.
Bohan
Bohan is a small village in southern Belgium known for its scenic location along the Semois River near the French border.
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B.
Bohan
Bohan is a given name that serves as a variant form of the name Bowen.
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C.
Bohooth
Bohooth is a metro station on Cairo Metro Line 2 serving passengers in the Greater Cairo area.
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D.
Boz
Boz is the stage name of American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Boz Scaggs, known for his blend of rock, blues, and soul music.
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E.
Kashmore
Kashmore is a town in Pakistan’s Sindh province that serves as a regional hub near the Guddu Barrage on the Indus River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Turkish vessel
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ship ⓘ |
| adjudicationYearOfCase | 1927 ⓘ |
| casualtiesOccurred | true ⓘ |
| collisionDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| collisionLocation |
Mediterranean Sea
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high seas ⓘ |
| collisionWith | S.S. Lotus ⓘ |
| countryOfRegistry | Turkey ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| flag | Turkey ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
1926 S.S. Lotus maritime collision
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Lotus case ⓘ S.S. Lotus–Boz-Kourt collision ⓘ |
| legalCaseHeardBy | Permanent Court of International Justice ⓘ |
| legalDisputeBetween |
France
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Turkey ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Lotus (France v. Turkey) judgment ⓘ |
| nationalityOfCrew | Turkish ⓘ |
| notableFor | being central to a landmark international law judgment ⓘ |
| relatedLegalIssue |
criminal jurisdiction in international law
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jurisdiction on the high seas ⓘ |
| relatedLegalPrinciple | Lotus principle ⓘ |
| sankAsResultOfCollision | true ⓘ |
| significantFor | Lotus case in international law ⓘ |
| typeOfIncident | maritime collision ⓘ |
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: Boz-Kourt Description of subject: Boz-Kourt was a Turkish vessel involved in the 1926 S.S. Lotus maritime collision case that became a landmark in international law.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.